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Excerpt from Coal Reserves: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session
Secondly, determine the degree to which State and Federal stat utes, regulations, enforcement agencies and regulators impact the amount of recoverable reserves that are included in the data base. The Council approved the results of this. Study in June of 1987 and forwarded a report to Secretary Herrington. The conclusions of this report can be summarized as follows. First, the actual Demonstrated Reserve Base for recoverable coal is considerably smaller than previously suspected. Secondly, numerous laws, policies and regulations impose eco nomic and physical limitations on the amount Of coal in the data base that can be recovered by present mining methods. There are no standards in use today at either the regional or the national level that present a true picture of the reserve base from either a technical or an economic point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
