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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 1998
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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, 1998, $2,626,737,295 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 1998 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency51998 Total
Alabama$0$0$681,053$2,639,432$500,000$3,820,485
Alaska00450,0001,214,24125,0001,689,241
Arkansas00327,3981,172,60213,0001,513,000
Colorado0221,108619,0001,475,00002,315,108
Illinois0821,7981,188,2526,493,962611,2239,115,235
Indiana0466,816956,8613,864,487267,1525,555,316
Iowa00230,1001,300,04901,530,149
Kansas00214,5751,735,835460,0002,410,410
Kentucky006,465,95814,479,785020,945,743
Louisiana00124,59745,5000170,097
Maryland0311,011604,1981,644,36302,559,572
Missouri062,939510,4681,452,24349,7712,075,421
Montana00403,5943,214,005125,0003,742,599
New Mexico0156,068982,741517,20001,656,009
North Dakota0114,750231,0371,224,75250,0001,620,539
Ohio1002,767,3285,811,6252,070,66310,649,616
Oklahoma00297,4031,457,99540,0001,795,398
Pennsylvania102,130,9735,826,19421,675,828029,632,995
Texas00415,30500415,305
Utah00270,5121,479,48801,750,000
Virginia1,20300,0001,529,8313,314,2681,000,0006,144,099
West Virginia1006,052,76326,605,8773,699,96236,358,602
Wyoming98,0560396,00222,570,288023,064,346
Crow Tribe00255,8771,570,46601,826,343
Hopi Tribe00552,948335,0000887,948
Navajo Tribe00974,6908,462,87509,437,565
Total$ 98,056$ 4,585,463$ 33,328,685$ 135,757,166$ 8,911,771$ 182,681,141

* Funding for these grants is derived from the 1998 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 $166,630 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 $2,516,656 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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