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• -- 5 COMPETITIOL7 FOR RESEARCH $$$$s ENTERS FII~7AL STREiC'H WASHINGPQd, D. C. - -Proposal projects for 1979 Mining and Mineral Resources and Research Institutes' funding have been narrowed dawn to 118 from the 372 proposals submitted last spring. An OSM Review Board -- Director Walter Heine, Deputy Director Paul Reeves, Dr. David Manoval, Assistant Director for Technical Se_*vices ant Research, and project overseer, ra,-,j. Cltiise of the Division of Applicx: Research -- made the cut after recommendations from 64 experts in the 10 fields of research considered. Heine said he was "delighted with the high calibre proposals" received. "In fact, we have suggested to those not selecte3 to submit their proposals to other private and FedPSal agencies for possible funding." Heine hopes to have all selections made by the end of stmmes. Research funding for 1979 available under this program is approximately $3 million. - THE SEVEN-AY7rIiH Fx'1~TISI~] ', VA_11„ Colo. - Fresh from three days of Senate oversight hearings, Deputy ~ Director Paul Reeves headed West to the Rockies June 26 and a spot on a panel at the Rocky Nbuntain Coal Mining Institute in Vail. Speculation on Secretary Andrus' June 19th proposal to give the States until March 3, 1980 to make thieir initial program submissions was high. And Reeves offered a few carefully dmsen words on the subject: ". I believe the extension is an opportunity for your industry to see that the States do whatever is needed to retain State primacy . We do not at this time plan to endorse any other change to the Pct t3~art this seven month extension. .Any such changes will open the Act to a wide range of changes and make it impossible to agree on the simple date changes that are urgently needed. .And we believe that substantially all of the significant problems that have been raised can be resolved through citizen, irrlustry, State and 06IN dialogue that is noa going on. It is too earlyr to say that frost problems cannot be worked out." _ _ ytiIDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - An Indianapolis surety firm has instituted an approach #n bonding tYiat may be of interest to other bonding cof~anies and could resolve p~ro- blems being encountered by coal mine operators in obtaining bonds. CshI believes the approach is worth considering but has to qualify this belief since it has: not fully analyzed all the condi*son and procedures that are inwlved. The plan is based on the pranise that by limiting the number of acres aui operator can disturb in mining coal at any one time, he will, in effect, be f®rced to reclaim as he goes along, rather than after he has mined out his permit area.