OSM FACT SHEET
	U.S. Department of the Interior	Office of Surface Mining


JUL I 4 1998

OSM AWARDS CROW TRIBE $1.65Z548 GRANT

FOR ABANDONED MINE LANDS PROGRAM

	The Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement (OSM) has awarded the Crow Tribe a $1,652,548 grant to
fund the abandoned mine lands (AML) reclamation program on Tribal 
lands
in Montana.

	Legislation was enacted in July of 1987 authorizing Indian Tribes 
to
operate their own AML reclamation programs, while OSM continues to
administer the federal regulatory program for coal mine 
reclamation on
Indian Lands.

-DOI

For additional information about the grant contact Hugh White 
Clay (406)

638-2894.