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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 1999
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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, 1999, $2,770,824,573 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 1999 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency51999 Total
Alabama$0$0$711,480$2,932,344$425,000$4,068,824
Alaska00495,2701,437,77125,0001,958,041
Arkansas00320,5041,179,49613,5001,513,500
Colorado0227,376676,0001,949,00002,852,376
Illinois0829, 0651,224,2986,876,521621,0009,550,884
Indiana0476,2291,117,1073,861,366293,3445,748,046
Iowa00236,2521,433,33501,669,587
Kansas00208,6811,291,319460,0001,960,000
Kentucky006,519,1359,810,941016,330,076
Louisiana00100,30130,0000130,301
Maryland0500,000562,998631,05601,694,054
Missouri061,773576,4671,319,76549,7712,007,776
Montana00461,8343,050,406125,0003,637,240
New Mexico0160,4121,020,2621,520,00002,700,674
North Dakota0114,673229,4561,233,28250,0001,627,411
Ohio1003,214,4053,896,0232,067,8979,178,325
Oklahoma00341,9911,158,00989,6291,589,629
Pennsylvania102,204,3864,591,55218,655,400025,451,338
Texas00403,08800403,088
Utah00302,4781,724,06602,026,544
Virginia1,20380,0001,616,3702,702,4601,500,0006,198,830
West Virginia1006,458,04316,006,9833,680,80726,145,833
Wyoming00376,07223,819,395024,195,467
Crow00128,888394,9430523,831
Hopi00914,20200914,202
Navajo00459,606547,79201,007,398
Total$ 0$ 4,953,914$ 33,266,740$ 107,461,673$ 9,400,948$ 155,083,275

* Funding for these grants is derived from the 1999 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 $172,916 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 $5,900,000 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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