id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
inlawrev-2407	Petterson, R. Russell	The Constitutionality of the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977	1980	46	.pdf	application/pdf	21941	1163	58	^he Surface Mining Act went through a six-year evolutionary process, emerging as a fine-tuned legislative enactment. These provisions establish, among other things, an Office of Surface Mining Reclama- tion and Enforcement,^ a federal aid program to the states for mineral resource research,^^ a program for the reclamation of aban- doned mines which have been unsatisfactorily reclaimed,^^ explicit regulations for all surface mining of coal,^^ regulations for underground mining which affects the surface,^^ the means by which certain lands may be designated as totally unsuitable for surface mining,^^ and the opportunity for individual states to adopt the Sur- face Mining Act or its equivalent.^* Assertions of constitutional infractions concentrate on Title V, the heart of the Act, which deals with the regulation of surface coal mining.	cache/inlawrev-2407.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2407.txt