PROGRAM INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT 2004

	2004 State and Indian Regulatory Program Inspection and Enforcement

The following table provides a summary of 2004 primacy state, federal program, and Indian program Inspection and Enforcement statistics. These statistics are also available for 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997.

State/Tribe	Inspectable Units¹	Complete Inspections²	Partial Inspections²	Notice of Violations²	Failure to Abate Cessation Orders²	Imminent Harm Cessation Orders²	Bond Forfeitures²
Alabama	225	2,480	282	157	0	0	8
Alaska	11	30	59	2	2	0	0
Arizona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arkansas	13	53	103	3	0	0	0
Colorado	51	195	319	10	2	0	0
Crow Reservation	1	2	8	0	0	0	0
Georgia	6	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hopi Reservation	2	8	4	0	0	0	0
Illinois	88	395	831	34	5	0	1
Indiana	121	673	1,343	40	3	0	0
Iowa	20	19	31	0	0	0	17
Kansas	12	48	89	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	1,992	7,858	14,680	721	183	32	10
Louisiana	2	8	16	0	0	0	0
Maryland	60	350	576	14	2	1	0
Mississippi	1	4	9	0	0	0	0
Missouri	47	107³	277³	0	0	0	0
Montana	15	94	106	8	0	0	0
Navajo Reservation	24	60	50	9	0	0	0
New Mexico	11	50	125	2	0	0	0
North Dakota	35	148	548	1	0	0	0
Ohio	356	1,385	2,218	191	3	7	5
Oklahoma	81	312	394	12	0	0	0
Pennsylvania	1,948	7,531	10,996	713	70	0	4
Tennessee	347	917⁴	932⁴	36	0	1	0
Texas	31	120	242	13	0	0	0
Utah	28	115	192	22	4	0	0
Ute Reservation	3	3	8	0	0	0	0
Virginia	550	2,679	3,280	410	4	11	0
Washington	2	9	17	3	0	0	0
West Virginia	2,414	6,830	12,462	1,218	117	26	19
Wyoming	35	142	251	7	0	0	0
Total	8,532	32,628	50,449	3,626	395	78	64

1. As of September 30, 2004
2. State program statistics for the one year period July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004, federal statistics for Crow, Georgia, Hopi, Navajo, Tennessee, and Washington are for the one year period October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004.
3. As a result of the substitution of federal enforcement in Missouri on August 22, 2003, 87 of the 107 complete inspections and 180 of the 277 partial inspections were conducted by the Office of Surface Mining during the period October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004, and the remainder (20 complete and 97 partial inspections) conducted by the state of Missouri Regulatory Authority during the period July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004.
4. Includes 92 complete and 26 partial inspections of exploration and Notice of Intent sites.

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