The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1978 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the...

agency entrusted with the implementation and enforcement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), which attached a per-ton fee...

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 list "the restoration of land and water resources" as a priority. Historically, reforested mining sites...

laws and regulations which mining companies have to strictly follow. In the United States, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 mandates...

voluntary reclamation program in 1965, in which the mine operators were expected to act on their own to restore mined lands. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation...

signed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, requiring mining companies to restore the condition of land where strip mining had been used...

of Labor, and replaced MESA. Congress created the Office of Surface Mining with the passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977...

federal agency tasked with regulating strip-mining under the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). According to OSM, "[t]o the extent...

Liability Act Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Endangered Species Act of 1973 Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act of 1986-...

removal mining has been practiced since the 1960s. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter...