2004 ABANDONED MINE LAND FEE COLLECTIONS AND FUNDING

	Abandoned Mine Land Fee Collections and Funding: 2004¹

Expenditures from the Fund are made through the regular budgetary and appropriation process. The Surface Mining Law specifies that 50 percent of the reclamation fees collected in each state with an approved reclamation program, or within Indian lands where the tribe has an approved reclamation program, are to be allocated to that state or tribe. This 50 percent is designated as the state or tribal share of the fund. The remaining 50 percent (the federal share) is used by the Office of Surface Mining to complete high priority and emergency projects under its Federal Reclamation Program, to fund the Small Operator Assistance Program, to fund additional projects directly through state reclamation programs, and to pay collection, audit, and administrative costs. In 1991, at the direction of Congress, a formula to distribute federal-share money to the state reclamation programs was established based on historic coal production. Collections and funding by states for 2004 are shown below. Statistics for 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999 are also available.

State/Tribe	Collections	State Share Distribution²	Federal Share Distribution²	Emergency Distribution²	Clean Streams Distribution^{2 and 3}	Total Distribution²
Alabama	$3,981,358	$1,289,499	$1,638,480	$400,000	$286,733	$3,614,712
Alaska	443,812	147,206	1,352,794	25,000	0	1,525,000
Arkansas	7,167	517	1,499,483	15,000	0	1,515,000
Colorado	7,581,382	1,771,619	798,511	0	0	2,570,130
Illinois	5,815,770	2,202,250	6,069,988	800,000	724,163	9,796,401
Indiana	10,620,707	3,061,012	1,976,198	350,000	320,069	5,707,279
Iowa	0	2,728	1,497,272	60,000	172,359	1,732,359
Kansas	28,861	31,966	1,466,034	465,000	0	1,965,000
Kentucky	26,383,324	9,370,452	5,948,973	0	712,218	16,031,643
Louisiana	385,776	100,955	0	0	0	100,955
Maryland	1,085,650	251,201	1,248,799	0	163,052	1,663,052
Mississippi	359,685	0	0	0	0	0
Missouri	208,841	70,917	1,429,083	50,000	171,356	1,721,356
Montana	11,024,151	3,435,934	0	125,000	0	3,560,934
New Mexico	3,605,738	1,585,359	194,129	0	0	1,779,488
North Dakota	3,077,944	898,834	601,166	100,000	0	1,600,000
Ohio	4,928,254	1,812,823	3,720,981	2,300,000	492,295	8,326,099
Oklahoma	523,733	157,870	1,342,130	100,000	152,613	1,752,613
Pennsylvania	11,908,673	4,368,150	19,621,212	0	2,061,792	26,051,154
Tennessee	795,026	0	0	0	0	0
Texas	4,701,054	1,488,290	0	0	0	1,488,290
Utah	3,378,554	1,080,832	462,200	0	0	1,543,032
Virginia	6,434,806	1,998,459	1,825,926	1,850,000	305,236	5,979,621
Washington	2,123,418	0	0	0	0	0
West Virginia	31,089,321	9,515,372	11,276,717	3,000,000	1,238,114	25,030,203
Wyoming	135,322,196	30,320,649	0	0	0	30,320,649
Crow Tribe	2,263,755	544,738	0	0	0	544,738
Hopi Tribe	1,252,660	403,997	0	0	0	403,997
Navajo Nation	7,691,784	2,276,464	0	0	0	2,276,464
Total	$287,023,400	$78,188,093	$63,972,076	$9,640,000	$6,800,000	$158,600,169

1. The Abandoned Mine Land fee collections reported here are accounted for using a "cash basis" crite4ria or the recognition of revenue when it is received.
2. The term �Distribution� is now used instead of �Allocation.� Allocation refers to the �pooling� of monies collected for the AML Fund. State and Federal share distribution amounts are based on formulas and parameters provided annually by the Assistant Director, Program Support. The emergency program distribution amounts are based on estimates provided by the states and approved by the Deputy Director.
3. Includes only supplemental state grants, not watershed cooperative agreements.

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