Y 4. In 8/14: 100-26 TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SURFACE MINING INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 3, 1987 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Chairman GEORGE MILLER, California JAMES MCCLURE CLARKE, North Carolina JOHN LEWIS, Georgia BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, Colorado PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon DON YOUNG, Alaska, Ranking Republican Member MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California RON MARLENEE, Montana DICK CHENEY, Wyoming CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California LARRY CRAIG, Idaho DENNY SMITH, Oregon JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah BILL EMERSON, Missouri BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada BEN BLAZ, Guam JOHN J. RHODES III, Arizona ELTON GALLEGLY, California STANLEY SCOVILLE, Staff Director and Counsel WILLIAM L. SHAFER, Consultant on Mines, Minerals, and Public Lands SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Chairman GEORGE MILLER, California JAMES MCCLURE CLARKE, North Carolina WAYNE OWENS, Utah MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico RON MARLENEE, Montana CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California LARRY CRAIG, Idaho BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada BEN BLAZ, Guam JOHN J. RHODES III, Arizona RICHARD H. BAKER, Louisiana RICHARD D. HAPKE, Republican Consultant on Energy NOTE.-The first listed minority member is counterpart to the subcommittee chairman. (II) 85, 302 Boisvert, Richard A., representing Society for American Archeology........ 76, 240 Christensen, Hon. Jed, Director, Office of Surface Mining and Reclama- tion Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Interior...... McCloskey, Hon. Frank, a U.S. Representative from the State of Indiana.. 6, 93 Merritt, Gary, director, Office of Environmental Energy Management, Melanie Baise, representing Illinois South Project..... Peggy Clark, representing Concern About Water Loss Due to Mining.. 36, 166 Panel consisting of: James S. Lyon, representing Environmental Policy Institute. Mary Jane Adams, chairperson, Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition.. 51 53 55 Ben E. Lusk, Washington representative, Drummond Co. John C. Grisham, president, Buckeye Industrial Mining Co..... David G. Todd, vice president, government and regulatory affairs, August Keller, director of government and public affairs, North 72, 235 Paul Corbin, chairman, Eastern Kentucky Coal Association also rep- resenting Governor Martha Layne Collins' Small Coal Operator APPENDIX MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1987 Additional material submitted for the hearing record from: Hon. Frank McCloskey, a U.S. Representative from the State of Indiana: 1. Prepared statement Page 93 2. Document entitled "National Bonding Bankruptcies". National Wildlife Federation: Prepared statement of L. Thomas Galloway, spokesman 100 104 Sierra Club: 1. Prepared statement of Wyona Coleman, spokesperson 110 2. Letter from W. Hord Tipton, Director, Lexington Field Office, U.S. Department of the Interior to Charlotte Baldwin, secretary, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, January 21, 1987, enclosing documents relating to hearing of August 3, 1987. National Wildlife Federation: Prepared statement of Cathy Carlson, surface mining project coordinator. 114 126 Western Organization of Resources Councils: Prepared statement of Gerald 132 Southwest Research and Information Center: Prepared statement of Paul 145 West Virginia Highlands Conservancy: Prepared statement of John Purbaugh, president.. 149 Illinois South Projects, Inc.: 1. Prepared statement of Melanie Baise, spokesperson. 2. Article entitled "Mining Subsidence Engineering". Concern About Water Loss Due to Mining: Citizens Organized Against Longwalling: Prepared statement of Betty Wells, spokesperson 185 Environmental Policy Institute: 1. Prepared statement of James S. Lyon, director of citizens mining project. 190 2. Document entitled "A Coal Field Proclamation for the 1990's". Mary Jane Adams: Deed from her family, 1906.. 196 197 Interstate Mining Compact Commission: Prepared statement of Gary Merritt, spokesman 200 National Coal Association and American Mining Congress: 1. Prepared statement of Ben Lusk, Washington representative, Drummond Co., Inc.... 216 2. Prepared statement of John C. Grisham, president, Buckeye Industrial Ashland Coal, Inc.: Prepared statement of David G. Todd, vice president.. Society for American Archeology: 1. Prepared statement of Richard A. Boisvert, spokesman. 222 228 235 240 2. Prepared statement presented at the 52d annual meeting, May 7, 1987, Toronto, Canada.... 244 3. Prepared statement of Charles M. Niquette, chairman, government relations committee.. 254 Council for the Conservation of Indian Archeology, Inc.: Prepared statement of Cheryl Ann Munson, president............ 262 Eastern Coal Association: 1. Prepared statement of Paul Corbin, spokesman... 280 2. Position paper on Opening the Federal Surface Mining and Reclamation Control Act of 1977 287 Robin Webb, attorney: Prepared statement.. 297 U.S. Department of the Interior-Continued Page 2. Letter from Secretary Hodel to Chairman Udall, July 31, 1987. U.S. Department of the Interior-Continued 1. Prepared statement of Hon. Jed D. Christensen, Director, Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation...... 302 313 3. Letter from Philip G. Kiko, legislative counsel to Chairman Udall, August 3, 1987, enclosing amendments to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977...... 315 Additional statements and correspondence were also received from: 321 Letter from Hon. Thomas C. Sawyer, a U.S. Representative from the State of 324 B.F. Goodrich, Co.: 1. Prepared statement 325 2. Preprint of paper presented at the 1987 Abandoned Mine Lands Conference, October 1987. 331 Article from Coal Mining entitled "Helping nature help itself". 347 U.S. Department of the Interior: Report entitled "Control of Acid Drainage 344 Hon. Morris K. Udall, a U.S. Representative from the State of Arizona: 364 Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment: Testimony from the field Patricia A. Marsh, Wheeling, WV: Letter to Chairman Udall, August 28, 1987 365 389 395 |