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110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 110-715
LEADVILLE MINE DRAINAGE TUNNEL REMEDIATION ACT
OF 2008
JUNE 17, 2008.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. RAHALL, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5511]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5511) to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation, to remedy problems caused by
a collapsed drainage tunnel in Leadville, Colorado, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5511 is to direct the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to remedy prob-
lems caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel in Leadville, Colorado,
and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel (LMDT) is located in west
central Colorado, near the town of Leadville. The former U.S. Bu-
reau of Mines constructed the tunnel to provide drainage for por-
tions of the extensive, interconnected mine workings in the
Leadville Mining District during the periods 1943-1945 and 1950-
1952. When construction finally ceased, the LMDT extended for
11,299 feet from the portal. In 1959, the Bureau of Reclamation
(BOR) assumed ownership of the LMDT and intended to use mine
water to augment the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, the BOR project
that draws water primarily from the Arkansas River for delivery
in Eastern Colorado. Notwithstanding its intent, the BOR has
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