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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 20011
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Title IV of the Surface Mining Law -- the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program -- provides for the restoration of lands mined and abandoned or left inadequately restored before August 3, 1977. Implementation is accomplished through an Emergency Program (for problems having a sudden danger that presents a high probability of substantial harm to the health, safety, or general welfare of people before the danger can be abated under normal program operating procedures) and a non-emergency program. States and tribes with approved programs carry out these responsibilities. Since 1979, when the states began receiving abandoned mine land administrative grants to operate their programs and construction grants to complete reclamation projects, through September 30, 2001, $3,102,949,344 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 2001 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency52000 Total
Alabama$0$0$537,818$3,353,592$400,000$4,291,410
Alaska00283,1802,628,74325,0002,936,923
Arkansas00405,8241,194,17615,0001,615,000
Colorado0260,811757,1501,852,85002,870,811
Illinois0903,0951,536,2579,269,754780,00012,489,106
Indiana0536,304958,3725,744,608328,2597,567,543
Iowa00246,1891,542,06401,788,253
Kansas00248,7241,366,758465,0002,080,482
Kentucky002,252,11516,642,354018,894,469
Louisiana00130,73210,5450141,277
Maryland2065,000553,170413,76901,031,939
Missouri066,358569,5901,372,76449,8002,058,512
Montana00430,5193,416,668125,0003,972,187
New Mexico0188,6691,115,2724,000,00005,303,941
North Dakota0127,090183,5201,395,780100,0001,806,390
Ohio003,527,5494,330,9882,300,00010,158,537
Oklahoma00329,3241,423,81160,0001,813,135
Pennsylvania202,565,8742,473,54837,289,937042,329,359
Texas00177,5331,475,43801,652,971
Utah0331,027359,8831,406,03102,096,941
Virginia0416,545659,9763,588,8122,050,0006,715,333
West Virginia006,831,91417,540,1273,500,00027,872,041
Wyoming001,039,78928,145,659029,185,448
Crow0091,741594,1510685,892
Hopi001,042,8121,800,00002,842,812
Navajo001,163,4633,107,19004,270,653
Total$ 0$ 5,460,773$ 27,905,964$ 154,906,569$ 10,198,059$ 198,471,365

1. Funding for these grants is derived from the 2001 distribution and funds recovered or carried over from previous years. Downward adjustments of prior-year awards are not included in the totals.
2. These 10% set-aside amounts are for Acid Mine Drainage set-aside funding rather than future set-aside funding.
3. Included in this category are costs for program support (personnel, budgeting, procurement, etc.), Abandoned Mine Land inventory management, and program policy development. Indirect costs associated with the administration of the program may also be included.
4. The term "Project Costs" is now used instead of Construction. Abandoned Mine Land simplified grants do not contain specific construction cost breakouts, but rather list all costs associated with a construction project as a project cost. This category contains both non-water supplywater supply, and noncoal project costs and includes $6,900,000 in Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative funding.
5. This category contains emergency project, administrative and indirect costs.

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