2002 ABANDONED MINE LAND FEE COLLECTIONS AND FUNDING

	Abandoned Mine Land Fee Collections and Funding: 2002

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 2002 are shown below. Statistics for 2001, 2000, and 1999 are also available.

State/Tribe	Collections	State Share Distribution¹	Federal Share Distribution¹	Emergency Distribution¹	Clean Streams Distribution¹	Total Distribution¹
Alabama	$3,486,834	$1,404,248	$1,657,068	$400,000	$289,784	$3,751,100
Alaska	495,900	160,477	1,339,523	25,000	0	1,525,000
Arkansas	5,927	248	1,499,752	15,000	0	1,515,000
Colorado	6,932,931	1,730,003	807,571	0	0	2,537,574
Illinois	6,072,789	2,419,092	6,138,853	800,000	735,468	10,093,413
Indiana	11,120,364	3,112,492	1,998,618	309,479	323,749	5,744,338
Iowa	0	3,762	1,496,238	0	173,253	1,673,253
Kansas	59,172	37,449	1,462,551	465,000	0	1,965,000
Kentucky	30,061,909	10,019,837	6,016,465	0	723,297	16,759,599
Louisiana	359,074	99,758	0	0	0	99,758
Maryland	1,107,321	235,870	1,264,130	0	163,769	1,663,769
Mississippi	148,845	0	0	0	0	0
Missouri	58,848	87,359	1,412,641	49,800	172,231	1,722,031
Montana	11,513,193	3,611,665	0	125,000	0	3,736,665
New Mexico	5,683,439	1,638,418	196,331	0	0	1,834,749
North Dakota	3,061,317	921,797	578,203	100,000	0	1,600,000
Ohio	5,716,442	1,957,896	3,763,196	2,300,000	499,225	8,520,317
Oklahoma	459,256	173,193	1,326,807	60,000	153,135	1,713,135
Pennsylvania²	13,172,159	4,734,675	19,843,819	0	2,098,336	27,176,830
Tennessee	965,683	0	0	0	0	0
Texas	4,507,284	1,584,087	0	0	0	1,584,087
Utah	3,776,766	1,114,382	515,188	0	0	1,629,570
Virginia	6,008,214	2,123,427	1,846,641	1,050,000	308,636	5,328,704
Washington	1,529,929	0	0	0	0	0
West Virginia	34,453,470	9,693,083	11,404,655	3,000,000	1,259,117	25,356,855
Wyoming	126,076,878	28,659,989	0	0	0	28,659,989
Crow Tribe	2,009,726	550,551	0	0	0	550,551
Hopi Tribe	1,308,399	428,219	0	0	0	428,219
Navajo Nation	6,914,277	2,414,773	0	0	0	2,414,773
Total	$287,066,346	$78,916,750	$64,568,250	$8,699,279	$6,900,000	$159,584,279

1. 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.
2. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania received $500,000 to continue the demonstration project begun in 2000..

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