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<br />OFFICE OF Ti~E 5ECRRTARY
<br />Embargoed until 400 p.m. June ?l, 1991
<br />Steve Goldstdn (202) 87 5298 ((h)
<br />Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lu)an today announced that coal mine operators in
<br />Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Montarut, Ohio, wash4tgtorr, and Wyoming won top honors
<br />1n the flftlt annual $xcellence in Surface Mining and Reclamation Awards compodilon.
<br />"The natlenal reclamation pmgram Is a top priority for the i7epartment of the Interior,'
<br />Gujan raid. '>3y leaving the land 1n batter condition after reclamation than !t was ;n
<br />before they started mining, these Warners exemplify the true meaning of resoune
<br />stewardship,'
<br />The Centralia Mining Cpmpaay of Centralia, Washington, won the presdglow Office
<br />of Surface Mining pirector'e Award for exemplary reforestation efforts designed to rettun
<br />to reestablish the mclaimed site's pm-mining forestry land use.
<br />Other top honor winners in the 1990 national competlnon, sponsored by interlor~e
<br />Office of 8urfaca Mining Reclamation and Ltnforcement (06M), are;
<br />- Trapper Mi1r[ng, Inc,, Trappp Mine, Craig, Colorado, submitted by rho Colorado
<br />Mined Land Reclamation D,vision, for a reclamation and sedimentation control project
<br />which re-created a habitat for duoc end elk on thn nWte'a 10,000-am pernilt sips.
<br />- Solu Sotixcea, Inr., Sky-Point Mltu, Lynnville, Indiana, submitted by the Indlacra
<br />Department of Natural Resourz:ea Rec]amation Division for exernplnryr soil replacement,
<br />and for restoring the alts to farrrtland, which is now producing a variety of trope,
<br />lruluding hay, soybeans, and wheat.
<br />-- Pewter pxceveting, Ina, Adze Pit, US. 50 Mine, and Uullock Mine, Montgomery,
<br />Indiana, nominated by the Indiana Coal Aaeoclation, for excepttonal mWng and
<br />reclamation by a smaalll coal operator (under 100,000 tons per year) whilo ratuming the
<br />mino site to !te pie-udnln usage for row crops, pasttu~a, and forestry, after skipping
<br />just one growing season Miring mining,
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