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Article: Ky. mine to comply, letter says
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 6, 2002
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In their efforts to suspend a court ruling that limits mountaintop
removal, coal industry lawyers have argued that the decision would
end all coal mining.
But on Monday, the operation targeted by the lawsuit that prompted
the ruling said it could mine coal without burying streams.
In a letter to federal regulators, Beech Fork Processing Inc. said
it could comply with Chief US District Judge Charles H. Haden II's
ruling.
Along with the letter, Beech Fork submitted to the US Army Corps
of Engineers a plan, called a pre-constructive notice, to re-
engineer its mine site without dumping waste into streams.
Paul Horn Jr., manager of engineering for Beech Fork, said in the ...