Surface Mining Reclamation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ... April 30, May 1 and 2, 1968, Volume 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 375 pages Considers. S. 3126 and S. 3132, to provide for closer Federal-state relations with respect to surface mining operations and to provide for regulation of surface and strip mining for the conservation, acquisition, and reclamation of surface and strip mined areas. S. 217, to authorize the Interior Dept to designate an officer to establish, coordinate, and administer the reclamation, acquisition, and conservation of lands and water adversely affected by coal mining operations. S. 2934, to make more uniform the rate of tax imposed by states on the severance of minerals. |
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