Coal Severance Taxes: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6625, H.R. 6654, and H.R. 7163 ... March 21 and June 5, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 418 pages |
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Page 364 - determination of the probable hydrologic consequences" of the mining and reclamation operations, both on and off the mine site...
Page 108 - Although activities may be intrastate in character when separately considered, if they have such a close and substantial relation to interstate commerce that their control...
Page 163 - ... cool and deliberate sense of the community ought in all governments, and actually will in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers, so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion or some illicit advantage or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
Page 42 - I think there are a couple of things that need to be cleared up, one specifically about the statement the gentleman from Texas made.
Page 266 - Mayger in the district court of the First Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the county of Lewis and Clarke.
Page 112 - ... to encourage and foster the greater use of coal and other alternate fuels, in lieu of natural gas and petroleum as a primary energy source...
Page 258 - NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that the American Public Power Association reaffirms its previously announced position in opposition to extreme State severance taxes and supports the enactment of HR 6625 and HR 6654.
Page 363 - ... for an undisturbed natural barrier beginning at the elevation of the lowest coal seam to be mined and extending from the outslope for such distance as the regulatory authority shall determine shall be retained in place as a barrier to slides and erosion.
Page 358 - Minimum disturbance to the prevailing hydrologic balance at the minesite and in associated off-site areas, and to the quality and quantity of water in surface and ground water systems...
Page 211 - Commerce; the Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; and the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior, House Comm.ittee on Appropriations.