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GEOSPATIAL COMMITTEE
Digital Data To Reduce The
Growth of the AML Inventory
And Protect The Public
Len Meier
Office of Surface Mining
Mid Continent Regional Office
Paper was presented at the 2006 National Association of Abandoned Mine Land
Programs 28th Annual Conference, September 25-27, 2006, Billings MT.
Before the SMCRA AML Program
The Problem
• We have put over $2 billion on the ground in AML coal
mine reclamation,
• Nearly $1 billion of that completed since 1996, and yet
• The number of AML Problem Areas in AMLIS has
increased by 50% since 1996, and
• The cost to reclaim Priority 1 and 2 non-water problems
has increased from $2.4 billion to $2.9 billion,
• We have reclaimed thousands of acres of mines to such
a degree that no-one knows they were mined.
• Subsidence prevention can only be addressed in very
small areas
What’s causing this growth?
Encroachment
Of people building homes on places that need special
consideration
• Encroachment
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– Thirty five State and OSM personnel and one person each from
the mining industry and Mine Health and Safety Administration
(MSHA) attended the meeting to decide if there were common
issues we might deal with collectively.
Results of Geospatial Data
Stewards Meeting
• Identified goals for use and acquisition of geospatial
data;
• Identified roadblocks to data usage and acquisition;
• Identified the necessity of increasing public access to
certain geospatial data layers associated with mining to
protect the public from AML lands;
• Recognized the importance of national data standards
for nationally significant data layers;
• Selected two “coal mine data layers of national
significance” to begin developing data standards (surface
coal mining boundaries and underground coal mining
boundaries)
Coal Mine Data Layers of National
Significance
• GIS data layers that will provide public
benefits in the future by:
– Informing citizens, developers and community
leaders of where potentially hazards mine
features may exist,
– Informing mine safety officials of where
existing flooded mines are located
– Increasing the accuracy and efficiency of
mine permitting decisions
Isn’t this just a duplication of what
states are already doing with their State
GIS Web Sites?
No, because:
National data sets
All data in standard format making it easy for
Insurance agencies, title companies, banks and
general public to begin using
Many states have not, or will not for various
reasons, be able to post this info on the www.
If AML Fund is extended and we
keep working, why do we need
these data layers?
Thank You
Len Meier
OSM – MCRCC
618-463-6463
Ext. 109
lmeier@osmre.gov