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    The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1978 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the...
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    agency entrusted with the implementation and enforcement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), which attached a per-ton fee...
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    Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 list "the restoration of land and water resources" as a priority. Historically, reforested mining sites...
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    laws and regulations which mining companies have to strictly follow. In the United States, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 mandates...
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    voluntary reclamation program in 1965, in which the mine operators were expected to act on their own to restore mined lands. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation...
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    Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America (H.R. 2824) is a bill that would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require...
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    signed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, requiring mining companies to restore the condition of land where strip mining had been used...
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    of Labor, and replaced MESA. Congress created the Office of Surface Mining with the passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977...
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    federal agency tasked with regulating strip-mining under the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). According to OSM, "[t]o the extent...
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    Spoil tip (redirect from Bing (mining))
    completion of the reclamation process when mining becomes unprofitable or stops. (See for example, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.) In...
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  • Liability Act Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Endangered Species Act of 1973 Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act of 1986-...
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    of funds generated by Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to be invested in communities adversely affected by the cessation of...
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    Environmental issues in Appalachia (category Coal mining in Appalachia)
    removal mining has been practiced since the 1960s. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter...
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    Lignite (redirect from Uses of lignite)
    necessary in this form) for mine reclamation is required in the US by the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. Loction: Nochten, Germany Owner:...
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  • Reclaim (redirect from Reclamation)
    threatened land Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a 1977 law in the US Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act, a 2013 law in...
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    government enacted the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which requires reclamation plans for future coal mining sites. These plans must...
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    (ISBN 1-56352-553-4). Carter, Billy (1977). Rifkin, Jeremy; Howard, Ted (eds.). Redneck power : the wit and wisdom of Billy Carter. New York, New York: Bantam...
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  • James Earl Carter Sr. (category Fathers of presidents of the United States)
    implementation of his New Deal when production control programs instituted under the Roosevelt administration included the slaughtering of hogs and plowing of cotton...
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    protect the environment, such as the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which regulates strip mining. In 1980 Carter signed into law a bill...
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    Bill Johnson (Ohio politician) (category Heads of universities and colleges in the United States)
    have amended the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require state programs for regulation of surface coal mining to incorporate the...
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    analysis control engineering; control yheory, instrumentation surface mining; open-pit mining underground mining (soft rock) underground mining (hard rock)...
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    Lillian Gordy Carter (category Mothers of presidents of the United States)
    served as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She was also known for her contributions as a Peace Corps volunteer in India and for writing two...
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  • The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) was approved on August 3, 1977. This Act established guidelines for the regulation of surface mining...
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    Social and political activism brought about the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. The 1859 discovery of commercial quantities of petroleum...
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    president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Below is a list of his political positions, some of which he expressed during his presidency and others...
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    Jared Huffman (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California)
    would "amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require state programs for regulation of surface coal mining to incorporate the...
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    Jason Carter (politician) (category Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    60, the Safe Carry Protection Act which opponents nicknamed the "guns everywhere" bill. The Safe Carry Protection Act which took effect on July 1, 2014...
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  • Arch Resources (category Mountaintop removal mining)
    obligations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. After Arch Coal declared bankruptcy, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality...
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    Bob Casey Jr. (category American people of Irish descent)
    one of six Democratic senators to introduce the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill that would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977...
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    American chestnut (category Edible nuts and seeds)
    forests of the Mid-Atlantic states, has planted over 22,000 trees. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires owners of abandoned...
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