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Coal Mining Safety Research

Metal And Nonmetal Health And Safety Research

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• Environmental Protection Of Surface Areas Near Underground Mining Operations Recovery Of Methane From Virgin Coal And Gob Areas

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• Improved Surface Mining (Extraction And Reclamation) Systems

Surface Mining Equipment Development.

Special Studies

Management Support

• Spoil Bank Restoration And Waste Disposal

• Coal Preparation And Analysis

Mineral Intelligence

Date Collection And Analysis.

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OPENING REMARKS OF DIRECTOR

Mr. FALKIE. I would like to introduce Dr. Joseph Yancik, Assistant Director, Mining.

I would like to apologize for being late to the hearing. What we have done, Mr. Chairman, is made some minor changes in the statement, but I understand the statement submitted to you is the corrected version.

Second, we have given you some charts that I am not going to go through except for the first few charts. These charts were intended to demonstrate precisely what is the tone of the discussion here for the last few minutes, and that is that the country needs to be more reliant on coal as a means for solving some of the problems that were discussed previously today.

I would like to skip over, if you will, to chart No. 8, and discuss very briefly and summarize for you what we are trying to do with this $15 million budget amendment.

This is the fiscal year 1976 budget of the Bureau of Mines as originally submitted by the President last year. There have been some actions taken by the House. The $15 million would be added to the mining research program.

COAL EXTRACTION RESEARCH

The Bureau of Mines conducts the coal extraction research for the Federal Government and the part of the extraction research that we are talking about today has to do with advancing coal mining technology. But we would like to point out once again that the Bureau of Mines is doing work related to environment in mining and related to health and safety in mining, in research and development, and we consider an integrated approach as the way to approach the problem of developing mining technology.

That is the point we are trying to bring out by this chart.
Mr. MURTHA. Integrated with whom?

Mr. FALKIE. In terms of actually building it into the mining system. You cannot consider productivity or production without considering health and safety and environment at the same time. That is what we mean by that.

Now the mining program is divided into three major program areas as shown in chart No. 10. We have listed them here as a way of putting together the major program areas, health research, safety research, and remind you also this is metal and nonmetal and some oil shale mining research that the Bureau of Mines is doing under this program.

Chart No. 11 shows the budget submissions as again originally submitted to the Congress last year in the mining program. The part of the mining program that we are specifically talking about here today is the coal mining program under advancing mining technology. In that part of the program, what we are trying to do is improve existing systems or techniques and new improved techniques for increasing productivity and production in our coal mines. That will go up from $45 million to $60 million if this amendment is approved.

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