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Article: DEP Announces Nine Projects to Reclaim 235 Abandoned Mine Land Acres

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October 30, 2009
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Contact: Tom Rathbun of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, +1-717-787-1323

Projects Will Remove Safety Hazards, Improve Water Quality in Susquehanna, Ohio River Basins

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger announced today 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 ...

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