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Overarching Action:

OSM Update on Mining, Reclamation, and AMD Thomas D. Shope Regional Director Appalachian Region, OSMRE. Overarching Action: More effective coordination between regulatory agencies and implementation of the SMCRA and the CWA. Interagency coordination:. OSM Action Areas:

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Overarching Action:

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  1. OSM Update on Mining, Reclamation, and AMDThomas D. ShopeRegional DirectorAppalachian Region, OSMRE

  2. Overarching Action: • More effective coordination between regulatory agencies and implementation of the SMCRA and the CWA

  3. Interagency coordination:

  4. OSM Action Areas: • Resolve Litigation over 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule/Stream Protection Rule. • Permit Defects • Enhanced Oversight

  5. OSM Enhanced Oversight: • Focus Areas: • Increasing the Number of Oversight Inspections • Inspection Methodology • Clarifying our authority and responsibility to conduct reviews of and act on state permitting procedures and state issued permits. • Establishing Action Plans to Resolve Issues • Greater Stakeholder involvement in the oversight process • Improving the quality and availability of data and information • Examining our data collection requirements, quality and use.

  6. Tennessee Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition

  7. 2012. . .

  8. Ongoing Projects: Improving Passive Mine Drainage Treatment for Manganese Removal – Phase IIDr. William Burgos, Pennsylvania State University Developing a Geochemical add-in Module for AMD Treat to Compute Caustic Quantity to Achieve Target pH and Corresponding Effluent Quality and Sludge VolumeDr. Charles Cravotta, USGS PA Water Science Center

  9. Projects that have just been funded: Low-pH Fe(II) Oxidation for Passive Treatment of Coal Mine DrainageDr. William Burgos, Pennsylvania State University Effective Monitoring and Assessment of Total Dissolved Solids as a Biotic Stressor in Mining-Influenced StreamsDr. Stephen Schoenholtz, Virginia Tech

  10. NWS Precipitation Map

  11. Output

  12. Oversight Suggestions 3/31/11

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