Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award Winners

Following is a list of state reclamation programs and individuals that have received Office of Surface Mining abandoned mine land reclamation awards.

2006 Awards

Regional Awards

• Monongahela South No. 1 Highwall Mine, Pennsylvania (Appalachian Region)
  
• Trinkle Reclamation Project, Iowa (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Garrison Abandoned Mine Land Project, North Dakota (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Comet Mine and Millsite, Montana

National Award, Category II

• Shallmar Coal Refuse Site, Maryland

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2005 Awards

Regional Awards

• Spewing Camp Branch Refuse AML Project, Kentucky (Appalachian Region)
  
• AML Site 380, Sugar Ridge Fish and Wildlife Area, Indiana (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Mesa State Collect/Environmental Restoration Education Project, Colorado (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Spewing Camp Branch Refuse AML Project, Kentucky

People's Choice Award

• Spewing Camp Branch Refuse AML Project, Kentucky

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2004 Awards

Regional Awards

• Neds Branch Impoundment, West Virginia (Appalachian Region)
  
• Coles Creek Project, Indiana (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Cerrillos South Mine Safeguard Project, New Mexico (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Neds Branch Impoundment, West Virginia

People's Choice Award

• Snake River Gravel Pit Project, Wyoming

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2003 Awards

Regional Awards

• Taylor Creek Impoundment, West Virginia (Appalachian Region)
  
• Victory Mine, Site 82, Indiana (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Cove 3 Project, Navajo Reservation (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Taylor Creek Impoundment, West Virginia

People's Choice Award

• Cove 3 Project, Navajo Reservation

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25th Anniversary Awards (Presented in 2002)

Regional Awards

• Kempton Coal Waste Stabilization and Doser Installation Project, Maryland (Appalachian Region)
  
• Sunshine Mine Reclamation Project, Indiana (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Sugarite Canyon Coal Mine Reclamation Project, New Mexico (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Sunshine Mine Reclamation Project, Indiana
  

People's Choice Award

• Sugarite Canyon Coal Mine Reclamation Project, New Mexico
  

Special Engineer of the Year Award

• John Kretzmann, Chief Design and Project Engineer with the New Mexico Abandoned Mine Land Bureau
  

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2001 Awards

Regional Awards

• Vindex Reclamation Project, Maryland (Appalachian Region)
  
• West Huntington Joint Reclamation Project, Arkansas (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Sunnyside Project, Utah (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Vindex Reclamation Project, Maryland

People's Choice Award

• Sunnyside Project, Utah
  

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2000 Awards

Regional Awards

• Pleasant View Mine Project, Kentucky (Appalachian Region)
  
• Midwestern Reclamation Project, Indiana (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Carrizo 1 Reclamation Project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona and New Mexico (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Pleasant View Mine Project, Kentucky

People's Choice Award

• Midwestern Reclamation Project, Indiana

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1999 Awards

Regional Awards

• Blackwater River Limestone Drum Station, West Virginia (Appalachian Region)
  
• Oklahoma Partnership Approach to Reclamation of Abandoned Mine Land, Oklahoma (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Socorro West, New Mexico (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Monument Valley 2 AML Reclamation Project, Navajo Reservation

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1998 Awards

Regional Awards

• Muddy Creek East Project, Pennsylvania (Appalachian Region)
  
• Poffenbarger Project, Iowa (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Sunrise Mining District Project, Wyoming (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Long Fork Sedimentation Project, Virginia
  

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20th Anniversary Awards (Presented in 1997)

Regional Awards

• Upper Lehigh Project, Pennsylvania (Appalachian Region)
  
• ALCOA Project, Texas (Mid-Continent Region)
  
• Silver Reef Project, Utah (Western Region)
  

National Award

• Upper Lehigh Project, Pennsylvania

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1995 Awards

Awards were not presented in 1995 due to budget cuts.

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1994 Awards (Presented in 1995)

• Aladdin Coal Tipple Interpretive Site, Wyoming
  
• Summit Reclamation Project, Utah
  
• City of Mines Project - Independence Mine and Mill, Colorado
  
• Gage Mine Safeguard Project, New Mexico
  
• Middle Fork Duck Creek Watershed Project, Ohio
  
• Rattlesnake Reclamation Project, Tennessee
  
• North Fork Watershed Project, Virginia
  
• Rock Springs Subsidence Abatement and Public Utility Repair, Wyoming
  

Director's Award (Elimination of acid mine drainage)

• Meadow Creek Project, Tennessee
  

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1993 Awards (Presented in 1994)

• Harrison County Road 51 Project, Ohio
  
• Shirley Basin Uranium District, Wyoming
  
• Adrian Southeast Project, Pennsylvania
  
• Eckhart Coal Waste Stabilization, Maryland
  
• Colorado Bats/Inactive Mines Project, Colorado
  
• Tintic Project, Utah
  
• Richmond Shafts Project, Virginia
  
• Rush Run Portals Project, West Virginia
  
• Crook County Bentonite Project, Wyoming

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1992 Awards (Presented in 1993)

• Boonville Hospital RAMP Project, Indiana
  
• Coppermine Abandoned Mine Project, Navajo Reservation
  
• Gay Branch Gob Pile Project, Virginia
  
• Lead and Zinc Mine Sites Reclamation Project, Illinois
  
• Ocean Refuse Removal Project, Maryland
  
• Pine Creek Mine Shafts Project, West Virginia
  
• Pyramid Coal Company Reclamation Project, Illinois
  
• Shiloh Reclamation Project, Arkansas
  
• Veca Pit and Spoils Project, Wyoming
  
• White Oak Four Reclamation Project, Ohio

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