Title IV Public Roundtables Announced
The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection has announced the schedule of statewide public town hall meetings intended to gather input regarding how best to use new SMCRA Title IV funding to reclaim abandoned coal mines. These meetings will be great opportunities to voice your opinions and to gather information about the law. Both WPCAMR and EPCAMR will be there to provide background information.
Mark your calendar for the meeting nearest you:
- May 22 – Shavertown (EPCAMR Office)
- May 23 – Pottsville (Schuylkill Conservation District)
- May 24 – Blossburg (Hillside Rod & Gun Club)
- May 30 – Robertsdale (Robertsdale Fire Hall)
- May 31 – Ebensburg (Dept. of Environmental Protection Cambria Office)
- June 5 – Slippery Rock (Jennings Environmental Center)
- June 6 – California (California University of PA, Morgan Hall)
- June 7 – Dubois (Penn State University, Dubois Campus, Hiller Auditorium)
(click here to view them all on a map and get driving directions)
(click here for DEP’s official notice)
All meetings will follow the agenda below:
- 4:00 to 5:30 pm – Educational videos and overview of SMCRA Title IV Reauthorization.
- 5:30 to 6:30 pm – Public review of PA’s Abandoned Mine Land inventory and maps.
- 6:30 to 8:30 pm – Public input session.
Call to Action!
The Title IV funding has truly been a windfall for the Abandoned Mine Reclamation community in Pennsylvania and is essentially a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don’t let the opportunity to ask questions and comment pass you by! It is vitally important for everyone to get up to speed on this highly important subject and even more so, to let the Department of Environmental Protection know your opinions on how Title IV funds should be used.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Title IV Public Roundtables Announced…
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June 7th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Yes ,
I saw this on WJACTV and missed the meeting in Ebensburg, But I would very much like to make a comment, I have been fighting for my Father for 3 years for unsafe drinking water and water having to be hauled to his 120 acre farm that Mine 33 took , which I am told it is abandoned. Bacteria in water and probably Methane gas and Hydrogen sulfate for there are dry wells giving it off. Polluted water, no water if dry seasons, and I can’t get nothing done? I feel DEP,OSM, WPCAMR should be responsible or the mines that did this while operating. You allow for clean streams, acid drainage, clean up abandoned mines but can’t allow for a farm and 4 properties finished for the rest of its life due to mines taking water and problem from 1981 to present.