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CED-77-72 1 (1977-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacfi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CFL - ')- 72 *COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STA-ZO 5 7 7 7- WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-118678 lii lllIII III i III III llllll .,oIo MAY ,' LM1021647 The Honorable Henry M. Jackson Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate The Honorable Morris K. Udall Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives As you know, surface mining control and reclamation legislation, House bill 2 (which passed the House of Repre- sentatives on April 29, 1977) and Senate bill 7, have been proposed for control of lands mined for coal. Although no similar legislation is currently proposed for lands mined for noncoal minerals, we have noted that both bills state a need exists for more complete information on the mining of noncoal minerals in order to formulate Federal regula- tions governing such mining. The bills direct the Council on Environmental Quality to review the state of technology relating to the mining and reclamation of lands mined for noncoal minerals. Recently, we made a survey of the reclamation of lands damaged in the mining of noncoal minerals. The purpose of our survey was to obtain general information on the environ- mental effects of mining operations in certain States and to identify the types of State controls established for the protection and reclamation of mined lands. In view of your Committees' interest in this matter, we believe the informa- tion we obtained may be helpful to you. During our survey we visited a number of active and abandoned surface and underground mining sites in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming to observe the effects of past and present mining operations for uranium, copper, phosphate, limestone, molybdenum, and iron. We found that: --Significant amounts of land have been disturbed by surface mining of noncoal minerals but the majority of these lands are not covered by any legal require- ments mandating its reclamation. CED-77-72

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