Related Links

EPA websites

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Abandoned Mine Lands Website

Information from the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/aml/revital/index.htm

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Congressional Testimony

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Water Resources and the Environment Subcommittee

On March 30, 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Water Resources and the Environment Subcommittee held a hearing on Abandoned Mine issues - http://www.house.gov/transportation/water/03-30-06/03-30-06memo.html

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Federal Information on Abandoned Mines

Office of Surface Mining Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program

The Abandoned Mine Land Program provides for the restoration of eligible lands mined and abandoned or left inadequately restored before passage of the Surface Mining Law. Office of Surface Mining program - http://www.osmre.gov/aml/intro/zintro2.htm

USDA Forest Service Abandoned Mine Land/ Reclamation Program

The USDA Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands - http://www.fs.fed.us/geology/mgm_reclamation.html

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Non-Federal Information on Abandoned Mines

The University of Colorado at Boulder, Center of the American West

Abandoned Mine Remediation Report - http://www.centerwest.org/cawabandonedmines.pdf

Trout Unlimited Abandoned Mines Projects

Acid Mine Drainage Home Rivers Initiative - http://www.tu.org/site/pp.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=361833

American Fork River project - http://www.tu.org/site/pp.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=277896