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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 20021
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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, 2002, $3,261,045,007 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 2002 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency52002 Total
Alabama$0$0$425,634$3,360,257$400,000$4,185,891
Alaska00305,3851,194,61525,0001,525,000
Arkansas00414,4411,085,55915,0001,515,000
Colorado0265,000756,2581,628,74202,650,000
Illinois0855,7951,338,9458,730,949800,00011,725,689
Indiana0511,1111,034,5484,392,031309,4796,247,169
Iowa00235,5721,439,78901,675,361
Kansas00231,4031,566,492465,0002,262,895
Kentucky001,802,00614,957,594016,759,600
Louisiana0099,7580099,758
Maryland20130,000553,2421,863,76902,527,011
Missouri062,942556,4201,181,42949,8001,850,591
Montana00490,5583,121,107125,0003,736,665
New Mexico0163,8421,073,0882,300,00003,536,930
North Dakota0120,863184,6521,273,687100,0001,679,202
Ohio0600,0233,426,3986,114,6812,300,00012,441,102
Oklahoma00312,5271,340,608100,0001,753,135
Pennsylvania202,457,8492,900,81126,705,364032,064,024
Texas00197,69400197,694
Utah00415,5621,320,74701,736,309
Virginia0397,007647,6603,347,0372,700,0007,091,704
West Virginia005,736,47125,620,8933,000,00034,357,364
Wyoming02,865,9891,330,05126,672,041030,868,081
Crow0093,980456,5710550,551
Hopi000215,0000215,000
Navajo00824,1907,425,60908,249,799
Total$ 0$ 8,430,421$ 25,367,254$ 147,314,572$ 10,389,279$ 191,501,525

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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