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CED-77-82 1 (1977-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaavyf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: C F> 77 LM103427 REPORT TO THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND POWER, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES Actions Needed To Improve The Safety Of Coal Mine Waste Disposal Sites The Department of the Interior and the States of Kentucky and West Virginia need to do more to correct hazards of coal waste disposal sites. Interior should --interpret more broadly its responsi- bility for regulating abandoned coal waste disposal sites under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, --take immediate steps to improve its inspection of coal waste disposal sites and enforcement of Federal regula- tions covering the sites, --implement Title IV of the Surface Min- ing Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 in conjunction with the States to identify all hazardous abandoned sites in need of reclamation, and --effectively communicate the results of its research on coal waste disposal. GAO believes that the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, independent of the 1969 Act, gives Interior the authority to periodically inspect abandoned coal waste dis- posal sites in connection with its reclamation responsibility under the act. Interior does not plan to conduct such periodic inspections because it does not believe it is authorized to do so. If Interior does not conduct safety inspections of abandoned sites, the Congress , should clarify Interior's legislative authorityj[z. to direct Interior to make such inspections. .-, CED-77-82 4 Ut 7 SEPTEMBER 21, 1977 /47 I - 7 'c ouN

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