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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 1997
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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, 1997, $2,487,590,309 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 1997 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency51997 Total
Alabama$0$0$692,606$3,560,494$400,000$4,653,100
Alaska00372,4901,127,51025,0001,525,000
Arkansas00260,4351,567,84513,0001,841,280
Colorado0219,639528,5141,271,48602,019,639
Illinois0855,0001,439,5266,290,731588,9709,174,227
Indiana0498,731938,1823,674,054247,9985,358,965
Iowa00212,7271,415,51301,628,240
Kansas00184,4441,559,970450,0002,194,414
Kentucky001,389,73818,570,201019,959,939
Louisiana00157,24930,7010187,950
Maryland01,042,348657,0271,224,03302,923,408
Missouri064,997505,1131,813,50902,383,619
Montana00478,0473,075,259125,0003,678,306
New Mexico0136,0701,063,196436,80001,636,066
North Dakota0116,850222,2321,581,58350,0001,970,665
Ohio101,000,0002,655,4384,674,6162,240,00010,570,054
Oklahoma00290,6841,249,86401,540,548
Pennsylvania102,261,6745,151,07332,590,941040,003,688
Texas00382,6947,560,02407,942,718
Utah00279,8221,450,61401,730,436
Virginia1,20100,0001,440,1624,059,9511,598,1647,198,277
West Virginia10950,0006,971,27219,290,4226,437,57533,649,269
Wyoming195,1370407,47021,977,446022,580,053
Crow Tribe00163,4431,026,94901,190,392
Hopi Tribe00331,812400,0000731,812
Navajo Tribe00693,7583,266,17203,959,930
Total$ 195,137$ 7,245,309$ 27,869,154$ 144,746,688$ 12,175,707$ 192,231,995

* Funding for these grants is derived from the 1997 Distribution and funds recovered or carried over from previous years. Downward adjustments of prior-year awards are not included in the totals.
1. These 10% set-aside amounts are for Acid Mine Drainage set-aside funding rather than future set-aside funding.
2. Administrative amount for Virginia includes $164,612 for coalbed mapping grant.
3. Administrative amounts for most states/tribes contain non-emergency indirect costs which are applicable to their entire AML program. These costs cannot be broken down into separate cost categories.
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 water supply project costs plus $3,575,000 in Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative funds.
5. This category contains emergency project, administrative and indirect costs. Indirect costs are not directly attributable to either emergency project or administrative costs.

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