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In Western Australia, the Warden's Court is constituted under the Mining Act 1978 and has jurisdiction throughout the state. Any person holding office as a stipendiary magistrate may be appointed as a mining warden and preside over a court sitting.
25th Anniversary of the Surface Mining Law: A report on the protection and restoration of the nation's land and water resources under the Surface Mining Law, Office of Surface Mining, 2003. Available at OSM website. Green, Edward. State and Federal Roles Under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 21 S. Ill. U. L.J. 531 (1997)
OSM Regional Structure Map. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is a branch of the United States Department of the Interior.It is the federal agency entrusted with the implementation and enforcement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), which attached a per-ton fee to all extracted coal in order to fund an interest-accruing trust to be ...
The Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978 was a 110-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America. It began December 6, 1977, and ended on March 19, 1978. It began December 6, 1977, and ended on March 19, 1978.
Indexed copy of Act; Overview of mine safety legislative history; US Code; Legislative history Archived 2006-03-02 at the Wayback Machine "Reflections" Mining History, a short 2002 documentary on the history of American coal mining safety, leading up to and including the 1977 act, produced by the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration.
When Congress passed the General Mining Act of 1872, the wording was changed to "or other valuable deposits," giving greater scope to the law. The 1872 law was codified as 30 U.S.C. §§ 22-42 [14] The 1872 act also granted extralateral rights to lode claims, and fixed the maximum size of lode claims as 1500 feet (457m) long and 600 feet (183m ...
Introduced in the House as H.R. 12874 by Mike McCormack (D–WA) on May 25, 1978; Committee consideration by House Science and Technology, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Passed the House on June 28, 1978 Passed the Senate on October 10, 1978 (Passed, in lieu of S. 3392) Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on November 4, 1978
The West Kambalda Railway Act 1972, an act by the Parliament of Western Australia assented to on 9 June 1972, authorised the construction by the Western Australian Government Railways of a 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) spur railway line from the Esperance railway line at Kambalda West to the Kambalda nickel concentrator. [22]