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OSM Seal Abandoned Mine Land Grants: 20001
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Title IV of the Surface Mining Law -- the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program -- provides for the restoration of lands mined and abandoned or left inadequately restored before August 3, 1977. Implementation is accomplished through an Emergency Program (for problems having a sudden danger that presents a high probability of substantial harm to the health, safety, or general welfare of people before the danger can be abated under normal program operating procedures) and a non-emergency program. States and tribes with approved programs carry out these responsibilities. Since 1979, when the states began receiving abandoned mine land administrative grants to operate their programs and construction grants to complete reclamation projects, through September 30, 2000, $2,925,456,857 was distributed from the fund. Grant obligation amounts for 2000 are shown below.
State/Tribe Subsidence
Insurance		 10% Program
Set-Aside		Administration3Project Cost4Emergency52000 Total
Alabama$0$0$543,630$3,122,992$400,000$4,066,622
Alaska00495,1401,882,19425,0002,402,334
Arkansas00388,9151,111,08515,0001,515,000
Colorado0240,000721,0001,309,00002,270,000
Illinois0877,1811,261,90111,055,1481,037,20014,231,430
Indiana0514,6481,031,0114,787,761336,1006,669,520
Iowa00233,5331,493,02901,726,562
Kansas00245,7141,645,140465,1402,355,854
Kentucky006,008,20011,160,431017,168,631
Louisiana0072,61150,0000122,611
Maryland00555,590406,5900962,180
Missouri053,701596,9341,050,71449,8001,751,149
Montana00429,3903,256,608125,0003,810,998
New Mexico0176,3501,109,2491,000,00002,285,599
North Dakota0121,362219,0751,159,563100,0001,600,000
Ohio0500,00023,166,8604,591,3402,000,00010,258,200
Oklahoma00328,8241,319,10060,0001,707,924
Pennsylvania02,461,60225,451,49130,812,654038,725,747
Texas00301,1664,033,35004,334,516
Utah00275,7141,797,09402,072,808
Virginia1,20401,778740,8823,668,4211,650,0006,461,081
West Virginia1006,589,48719,854,6283,000,00029,444,115
Wyoming215,7770386,29326,295,647026,897,717
Crow00183,7681,201,36701,358,135
Hopi000200,0000200,000
Navajo00622,6731,067,26701,689,940
Total$ 215,777$ 5,346,622$ 31,959,051$ 139,331,123$ 9,263,100$ 186,115,673

1. Funding for these grants is derived from the 2000 distribution and funds recovered or carried over from previous years. Downward adjustments of prior-year awards are not included in the totals.
2. These 10% set-aside amounts are for Acid Mine Drainage set-aside funding rather than future set-aside funding.
3. Included in this category are costs for program support personnel, budgeting, procurement, etc.), AML inventory management, and program policy development. Indirect costs associated with the administration of the program may also be included.
4. The term "Project Costs" is now used instead of Construction. Abandoned Mine Land simplified grants do not contain specific construction cost breakouts, but rather list all costs associated with a construction project as a project cost. This category contains both non-water supply projects and water supply project costs plus $6,924,993 in Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative funding.
5. This category contains emergency project, administrative and indirect costs.

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