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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
The Department, and most are not addressed in this 5th Report.Click Here for a copy of the CAC cover letter. Click Here for a copy of the Council’s full comments.DEP has not responded formally to the CAC’s comments on the 5th Act 54 Report.In DEP’s report to the Council for its September 10, 2024 meeting, says DEP has “completed an update to the data records of claims, compliance actions, stream effects and wetland effects related to underground bituminous mining.”DEP "then arranged and packaged the data for submittal to the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) for peer review. The final report was completed and is being routed for public release. After the 6th report is released, the online data will be updated to include 2023 information to the present."(Photos: Top-- 6 small photos are examples of typical structure, stream damage from DEP’s Act 54 report; Damage to I-70; Bottom- longwall mining machine.)[Posted: September 5, 2024]
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