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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 20031
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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, 2003, $3,422,803,176 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 2003 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency52003 Total
Alabama$0$0$574,378$3,239,327$400,000$4,213,705
Alaska00304,0761,195,92425,0001,525,000
Arkansas00380,3601,143,50815,0001,538,868
Colorado0253,801717,8002,066,39903,038,000
Illinois0834,2721,538,8106,700,021800,0009,873,103
Indiana0504,8791,167,8953,698,109467,0005,837,883
Iowa00193,4611,506,49660,0001,759,957
Kansas00299,7851,474,307460,0002,234,092
Kentucky001,809,32014,655,201016,464,521
Louisiana00118,45400118,454
Maryland2065,000480,7832,166,54702,712,330
Missouri00061,773225,000286,773
Montana00499,7693,230,622125,0003,855,391
New Mexico0163,2451,041,682611,37301,814,300
North Dakota0118,540179,6011,244,872100,0001,643,013
Ohio0572,1092,415,6453,676,1942,300,0008,963,948
Oklahoma00242,0451,257,955180,0001,680,000
Pennsylvania202,410,4282,610,22621,170,516026,191,170
Texas00156,5023,226,65803,383,160
Utah00406,6021,767,36402,173,966
Virginia0385,589608,0503,715,1152,103,0006,811,754
West Virginia02,930,5185,054,60523,287,7628,070,95939,343,844
Wyoming261,28701,332,16131,389,201032,982,649
Crow0084,352380,0670464,419
Hopi00667,24600667,246
Navajo00943,6012,259,16403,202,765
Total$ 261,287$ 8,236,381$ 23,827,209$ 135,124,475$ 15,330,959$ 182,780,311

1. Funding for these grants is derived from the 2003 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 $6,530,259 in Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative funding.
5. This category contains emergency project, administrative and indirect costs.

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