It is a small change, but it will have a large, long lasting, positive effect on state efforts to clean up legacy pollution from coal mining. Specifically, The bill allows states to hold back 30% of existing allocations for long term operating and maintenance costs of abandoned mine land reclamation. When rain water and river water runs over oxidized pyrite and abandoned coal mines, it turns color and the whole area becomes toxic. (00:49–01:05)
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Asserts that HR 7283 permits states to allocate 30% of funds for maintenance of mine reclamation.
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