1. Does the OSM AML Inventory include all land and water damaged by past mining?
No, it only contains problems
eligible
for reclamation using the
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund
. Also, only coal-related problems due to mining prior to the enactment of SMCRA and meeting the first two objective set out in SMCRA,
Priorities 1 and 2
, have been systematically inventoried.
The categories of problems in the Inventory and their share of total reclamation costs in the Inventory are shown in the table below.
| When Mining Occurred |
Type of Mining |
|
% of Total Reclamation Costs in AML Inventory |
| Pre_SMCRA |
|
|
|
| |
Coal |
|
|
| |
|
P 1 & 2 |
75% |
| |
|
P3 |
19% |
| |
|
Other |
0.04% |
| |
|
Total |
94% |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Non-coal |
5% |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Total |
99% |
| |
|
|
|
| Post-SMCRA |
|
|
|
| |
|
Interim & Surety |
1% |
| |
|
|
|
| Total |
|
|
100% |
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2. Does the AML Inventory contain information on mine(s) or company(ies) responsible for the damage.
No. Under SMCRA sites are eligible for reclamation funding if there is no party with a continuing reclamation responsibility under State or Federal law.
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3. What are the three funding status categories used in the inventory?
Unfunded,
Funded, and
Completed.
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4. Are new problems being added to the AML Inventory?
Yes.
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5. Why are new problems being added?
The two main reasons are:
a.) A pre-existing problem that did not meet the priorities now meets them because of a change in circumstances. For example, an existing highwall not in the AML Inventory is added when, after heavy rains, it becomes unstable and threatens a house near its base.
b.) A new problem arises. For example, an old underground coal mine begins to subside threatening a road and nearby houses. A subsidence problem would be added to the AML Inventory.
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