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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Fee Collections and Funding: 2001
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Expenditures from the Fund are made through the regular budgetary and appropriation process. The Surface Mining Law specifies that 50 percent of the reclamation fees collected in each state with an approved reclamation program, or within Indian lands where the tribe has an approved reclamation program, are to be allocated to that state or tribe. This 50 percent is designated as the state or tribal share of the fund. The remaining 50 percent (the federal share) is used by the Office of Surface Mining to complete high priority and emergency projects under its Federal Reclamation Program, to fund the Small Operator Assistance Program, to fund additional projects directly through state reclamation programs, and to pay collection, audit, and administrative costs. In 1991, at the direction of Congress, a formula to distribute federal-share money to the state reclamation programs was established based on historic coal production. Collections and funding by states for 2001 are shown below. Statistics for 2000 and 1999 are also available.
State/Tribe Collections1 State Share
Distribution2		Federal Share
Distribution2		Emergency
Distribution2		Clean Streams
Distribution2		Total Distribution2
Alabama$3,756,269$1,532,354$1,725,921$400,000$289,784$3,948,059
Alaska534,750169,2301,420,77025,00001,625,000
Arkansas5,67201,600,00015,00001,615,000
Colorado6,729,0021,770,888836,894002,607,782
Illinois5,977,1502,666,7356,361,760680,000735,46810,443,963
Indiana10,236,2843,291,0522,071,190328,259323,7496,014,250
Iowa04,6661,595,3340173,2531,773,253
Kansas66,75142,7121,557,288465,00002,065,000
Kentucky29,421,59310,791,0916,234,9260723,29717,749,314
Louisiana359,242103,711000103,711
Maryland1,020,146235,7891,364,2110163,7691,763,769
Mississippi22,36400000
Missouri172,12898,9031,501,09749,800172,2311,822,031
Montana11,340,5463,847,1870125,00003,972,187
New Mexico6,264,2811,683,151203,460001,886,611
North Dakota3,071,118972,107627,893100,00001,700,000
Ohio45,908,5422,098,8903,899,841300,000499,2256,797,956
Oklahoma535,424185,0351,414,96560,000153,1351,813,135
Pennsylvania314,143,4525,086,45320,564,36202,098,33640,321,431
Tennessee759,81500000
Texas4,894,4871,691,7990001,691,799
Utah3,803,4891,170,262539,579001,709,841
Virginia46,874,5842,251,0161,913,69550,000308,6364,523,347
Washington1,702,27100000
West Virginia435,840,67110,027,25611,818,767325,1181,259,11723,430,258
Wyoming120,897,13128,820,71200028,820,712
Crow Tribe1,677,202589,310000589,310
Hopi Tribe1,285,159459,440000459,440
Navajo Nation6,734,0112,619,3010002,619,301
Total$ 284,033,534$ 82,209,050$ 67,261,953$ 2,923,177$ 6,900,000$ 171,866,460

1. The collections total also does not include federal collections of $10,590 paid to the Office of Surface Mining which are not attributable to any state or tribal entity.
2. The term “Distribution” is now used instead of “Allocation.” Allocation refers to the “pooling” of monies collected for the AML Fund. State and Federal share distribution amounts are based on formulas and parameters provided annually by the Assistant Director, Program Support. The emergency program distribution amounts are based on estimates provided by the states and approved by the Deputy Director.
3. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania received $11,973,600 for abandoned coal reclamation and acid mine drainage in the anthracite region, and $598,680 to continue the demonstration project begun in 2000.
4. In addition to the amount of emergency funding noted above, the states of Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, received $2,000,000, $1,000,000, and $3,174,882, respectively, from an account which holds unallotted emergency funds that have been recovered from prior years and carried forward for future emergency needs. Therefore, Ohio's total emergency funding is $2,300,000, Virginia's is $1,050,000, and West Virginia's is $3,500,000..

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