Ala. Code § 9-16-125 (1975) Reclamation Program

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 9-16-125 (1975)

(a) The Department of Labor, State Programs Division, shall establish and maintain a state reclamation program for abandoned mines which complies with Title IV of Public Law 95-87. The state reclamation program plan shall generally identify the areas to be reclaimed, the purposes for which the reclamation is proposed, the relationship of the lands to be reclaimed and the proposed reclamation to surrounding areas, the specific criteria for ranking and identifying projects to be funded, and the legal authority and programmatic capability to perform such work in conformance with the provisions of the federal act.

(b) The director shall annually submit to the secretary, an application for the support of the state program and implementation of specific reclamation projects. Such requests shall include, but shall not be limited to:

(1) A general description of each proposed project;

(2) A priority evaluation of each proposed project;

(3) A statement of the estimated benefits in such terms as: number of acres restored, miles of stream improved, acres of surface lands protected from subsidence, population protected from subsidence, air pollution, hazards of mine and coal refuse disposal area fires;

(4) An estimate of the cost for each proposed project;

(5) In the case of proposed research and demonstration projects, a description of the specific techniques to be evaluated or objective to be attained;

(6) An identification of lands or interest therein to be acquired and the estimated cost;

(7) In each year after the first in which a plan is filed, an inventory of each project funded under the previous year's grant; which inventory shall include details of financial expenditures on such project together with a brief description of each such project; including project locations, landowner's name, acreage, type of reclamation performed.