Home page Directory Index Search Site map Help
OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Fee Collections and Funding: 1999
Toolbar3.gif
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 1999 are shown below.
State/Tribe Collectionss State Share
Distribution2		Federal Share
Distribution2		Emergency
Distribution2		Clean Streams
Distribution2		Total Distribution2
Alabama$4,210,789$1,510,499$1,511,958$425,000$263,804$3,711,261
Alaska456,905155,6231,344,37725,00001,525,000
Arkansas14,09101,500,00013,00001,513,000
Colorado6,386,7001,536,904736,851002,273,755
Illinois6,673,1202,689,3795,601,270621,000639,2359,550,884
Indiana11,597,5282,938,6881,823,598293,344292,4165,348,046
Iowa05,5911,494,4090165,6441,665,644
Kansas127,01141,3331,458,667460,00001,960,000
Kentucky32,379,71310,165,8435,489,5990628,97616,284,418
Louisiana300,99294,91200094,912
Maryland723,357205,6221,294,3780157,6571,657,657
Missouri115,965114,9851,385,01549,771164,7851,714,556
Montana12,236,1643,490,3440125,00003,615,344
New Mexico6,257,1831,424,983179,139001,604,122
North Dakota3,075,543880,704619,29650,00001,550,000
Ohio6,097,4692,032,9673,433,6512,100,000440,2308,066,848
Oklahoma506,187175,6151,324,38540,00001,540,000
Pennsylvania30,116,2823,937,77618,106,08501,787,23923,831,100
Tennessee737,60700000
Texas5,370,9491,555,9070001,555,907
Utah3,892,4401,028,768491,549001,520,317
Virginia6,268,9012,133,5601,684,9301,000,000279,6875,098,177
Washington1,518,20800000
West Virginia319,123,5519,725,86610,405,9431,071,8851,080,32722,284,021
Wyoming108,468,44923,815,98900023,815,989
Crow Tribe1,907,130523,831000523,831
Hopi Tribe1,227,137400,444000400,444
Navajo Nation6,791,8612,606,7670002,606,767
Total$ 276,581,2321$ 73,192,900$ 59,885,100$ 6,274,000$ 5,900,000$ 145,252,000

1. The collections total also does not include federal collections of $93,174 paid to OSM 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 State of West Virginia received an additional $3,565,872 from an account that was recovered from prior years and carried forward for future emergency needs. West Virginia’s total emergency funding is $4,637,757.

(Home Page)

Office of Surface Mining
1951 Constitution Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
202-208-2719
getinfo@osmre.gov