OSM FACT SHEET
U.S. Department of the Interior    Office of Surface Mining
April 30, 1997

          OSM AWARDS ALABAMA $325,000 GRANT
                   TO FUND CLEAN STREAMS PROJECT

    The Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement (OSM) announced today that Alabama has been awarded a $325,000
grant to assist in funding the state's Cane Creek Abandoned Mine Land (AML)
restoration project in Walker County.

    Cane Creek was selected as a pilot project for OSM's Appalachian Clean
Streams Initiative in 1995. A tributary to Lost Creek and the Black Warrior River,
Cane Creek is polluted by acid mine drainage from a both a 20-acre gob pile and
deep mine portals.

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NOTE: For additional information about the grant, contact William Guyette (334)
242-8265.