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Article: DEP Announces Nine Projects to Reclaim 235 Abandoned Mine Land Acres.
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- Mining & Minerals
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- November 20, 2009
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Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger announced that dangerous abandoned mine lands featuring steep cliffs, waste coal that pollutes streams, and exposed coal seams that can ignite will be cleaned up under nine contracts awarded during the third quarter of 2009.
DEP awarded the contracts under programs that address the most dangerous mine sites and, in some cases, allow modern coal mining companies to clean up historic messes at no cost to taxpayers.
The nine contracts were for projects in Allegheny, Cambria, Clarion, Jefferson, Mercer and Somerset counties.
"We have begun several significant abandoned mine reclamation ...