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AMD Sampling for O&M; of Treatment Systems
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Check out our Western PA Counterpart!!
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Eastern Coal Region Roundtable Website
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Visit the Eastern Coal Region Roundtable Website for large collection of grant opportunities.
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Mine Subsidence Insurance
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Surveys: PA considering a bill that encourages biofuels feedstock to reclaim mine land
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Pennsylvania is considering a bill that would encourage using switchgrass and other biofuels feedstock to reclaim abandoned mine lands. The abstract reads: "An Act amending the act of May 31, 1945 (P.L.1198, No.418), known as the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act, further providing for mining permit; providing for bioenergy crop bonding; and making editorial changes." It sounds like an interesting proposal to enhance PA's mine land reclamation program to aide in our current energy crisis. Here's the link to the bill in the Pa General Assembly Website
The original law required mining companies to establish and maintain a permanent cover after reclamation of a mining site to satisfy a their permit requirements and to release the bond placed on the land. This proposed amendment seems to add the flexibility in the type of cover crop and harvesting.
It was up for a Environmental Resource and Energy Committee vote on September 23, 2008 and passed pretty much unanimously. I have attached a poll to this article to get your response. Please also feel free to comment on this article.
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Surveys: AMD Conference Planning Committee Gearing up for 2006 Conference
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The theme will be "Back to Basics" and we want to focus back on building capacity for watershed groups in PA working on Abandoned Mine Land issues. We need your help to decide if there should be 2 regional conferences in Pennsylvania? We are thinking about having separate Anthracite Region (Eastern PA) and Bituminous Region (Western PA) Conferences. What do you think? Please let us know by voting in "Going With the Flow" on the homepage.
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Surveys: New poll: "Local History in Schools?"
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Does this something need to be initiated in Eastern Pennsylvania?
Taken from Pittsburgh Live - Richard Robbins: ' Teaching local history in Westmoreland County schools was the No. 1 priority of a small gathering of historical preservationists who met this summer under the auspices of the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh.
The nonprofit Young Preservationists also held workshops at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in eight other western Pennsylvania counties, including Indiana County and Washington County. The concluding workshop will be held in Braddock Sept. 20.
The results of the meetings will be posted on the organization's Web site, www.youngpreservationists.org
Dan Holland, of Pittsburgh, the moderator for the Westmoreland County brainstorming session, said decisions about what to preserve in a community and what to let go should be made with the best possible information in hand.
"There is a lot of misinformation" about historic preservation, Holland said. Heading the list was the idea that communities have little say-so when it comes to locating new developments.
Holland acknowledged the tension between development on one hand and preservation on the other, and the challenge posed by the region's many municipal governments.
There are some 500 units of government in the Pittsburgh region. This number tends to discourage regional planning and cooperation, and it has potential negative consequences for traditional downtowns, Holland said.
Thomas W. Headley, executive director of Westmoreland Heritage, said during the brainstorming session that "something" needs to be done to help Jeannette, once a national leader in glass-making. Preserving a portion of the county's remaining beehive coke ovens also should be a priority, Headley said.
Alex J. Graziani, of Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County, said the county's preservation record has been mixed. He insisted, however, that county leaders "now get it."
"I think the county really knows the economic opportunities associated with historical preservation," Graziani said.'
EPCAMR Staff would like your opinion, or if you know of any way that your local school district is teaching
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OUR 11TH YEAR!
The Annual Pennsylvania Conference on Abandoned Mine Reclamation will be held on July 13-16, 2009 at the University of Pittsburgh Campus in Johnstown, PA. Visit www.TreatMinewater.com for more details and previous conferences
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