I think they appreciate that our modern mining industry sometimes faces a lot of anti-mining bias based on things that were done in the past.
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What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history.Tom Rathbun
We're not sitting on our hands waiting for someone to hand us money. With smaller watershed groups and state and local government being open to new ideas, our job is to see that other solutions are being put into practice.
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We need something that's going to work for the Appalachian states any place there was mining before the 1970s, there's a real need for reclamation. And that money still only cleans up higher-priority sites it doesn't even touch on all the non-coal quarries in need of reclamation.
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The state is focused on cleaning up this huge, historic mess. We don't believe we're asking for anything extravagant (from the federal government) to do it.
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We're not going to wait around for federal money to continue addressing these problems. We're looking at other options.
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