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1 <br />1 obligations. Let me talk a little bit about that. <br />2 During 1997, my predecessor, Susan <br />3 McCanan, the previous coal program supervisor, went to <br />4 the budget powers that be and worked very hard to <br />5 obtain additional moneys from the severance tax funds <br />6 to do some additional reclamation work at six eligible <br />7 coal mines for which the bond had been forfeited and we <br />8 felt like there could be more work done on the ground. <br />9 In fact, the division was able to secure <br />10 $190,000 for the six eligible sites. GEC was one of <br />11 those sites, and the moneys were granted to the DMG <br />12 through the long bill effective July 1st, 1998. Along <br />13 with those moneys came a stipulation that the moneys <br />14 would either be spent or returned to the state coffers <br />15 July 1, 2001. So those moneys were either spent or <br />16 they reverted back to the state one year from this <br />17 coming July. <br />18 The DMG dedicated about $70,000 to the <br />19 GEC project. We did some rough budgeting. We decided <br />20 which sites we could do work on and which sites we <br />21 couldn't do work on, and again, about 70 grand, give or <br />22 take, was dedicated to the GEC project, and last summer <br />23 we, the division, proceeded with discussions with the <br />24 Corley Company to decide how that money should be spent <br />25 at this project and what the project priorities should <br />