1999 FEDERAL OVERSIGHT OF STATE PROGRAMS

	Federal Oversight of State Programs: 1999 (10/1/98 - 9/30/99)

Section 517(a) of the Surface Mining Law requires the Office of Surface Mining to make inspections as necessary to evaluate the administration of approved state programs. To implement these duties, the Office of Surface Mining works with states and other interested parties to seek consensus on oversight techniques. To maintain objectivity, the Office of Surface Mining also plans and conducts inspections, independent reviews, and technical analyses. The table below summarizes the Office of Surface Mining's oversight inspection and enforcement activities during 1999. 1998, and 1997 are also available.

State	Site Visits	Violations	Cessation Orders	Cessation Orders
		Violations Cited in Office of Surface Mining Enforcement
		Notice of Violation	Failure-To-Abate	Imminent Harm
Alabama	130	1	1	0
Alaska	3	0	0	0
Arkansas	13	0	1	0
Colorado	19	0	0	0
Illinois	133	0	0	0
Indiana	145	0	0	0
Iowa	33	0	0	0
Kansas	17	0	0	0
Kentucky	724	4	2	1
Louisiana	2	0	0	0
Maryland	29	0	0	0
Mississippi	4	0	0	0
Missouri	50	0	0	0
Montana	15	0	0	0
New Mexico	9	0	0	0
North Dakota	16	0	0	0
Ohio	167	0	0	0
Oklahoma	40	0	0	0
Pennsylvania	493	6	7	0
Texas	16	0	0	0
Utah	9	0	0	0
Virginia	233	0	0	0
West Virginia	232	21	9	0
Wyoming	10	2	0	0
Total	2,542	34*	20*	1

* Of the 29 Notices of Violations and 16 Cessation Orders issued by the Office of Surface Mining, 43 NOV's and 17 CO's were related to Abandoned Mine Land fees. Statistics in this table exclude any violations that have been vacated.

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