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Passed the Senate on June 21, 1977 Passed the House on July 15, 1977 (244-88, in lieu of H.R. 4287) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 3, 1977; agreed to by the Senate on October 6, 1977 (agreed) and by the House on October 27, 1977 Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on November 9, 1977
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (/ ˈ ɛ m ʃ ə /) is a large agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents, to ...
Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamation Association, 452 U.S. 264 (1981), is a United States Supreme Court case that unanimously held that the Commerce Clause allowed Congress to pass the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which regulated surface mining on private property, because of this environmentally destructive industry's ...
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 document also contains the entire text of HR 25, the legislative act that was sent to the President for signing. Please note that on February 5, 1975, President Ford sent a message to Congress transmitting a draft of proposed legislation for regulating surface coal mines and reclaiming abandoned coal mine lands.
The Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA) under the U.S. Department of the Interior was the predecessor of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, prior to March 9, 1978. [1] It was formed by the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 , [ 2 ] and co-approved respirators with NIOSH under 30 CFR Part 11 . [ 3 ]
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