Interactive Title IV Calculator
The Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation has created an interactive, visual tool to help comprehend how federal Title IV funding might be applied toward Pennsylvania’s abandoned mine problems. This new funding, the result of a 2006 revamp of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA), will bring an estimated $1.4 billion over the next 15+ years.
WPCAMR’s Title IV Calculator lets its user easily gain an appreciation of how the Title IV funding model works through playing “what if” by clicking buttons to change estimated values of Pennsylvania’s P1 & P2 inventory, AMD inventory, AMD Set-Aside, DEP overhead, and total Title IV funding.
The Title IV Calculator displays these interactions visually with pie charts and a table of values representing AMD left undone, clean water, restored P1s & P2s, and the remaining P1s & P2s left undone.