Pennsylvania Act 1965-410 — POLLUTION FROM ABANDONED MINES - ABATEMENT PROGRAM

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POLLUTION FROM ABANDONED MINES - ABATEMENT PROGRAM
                 Act of Dec. 15, 1965, P.L. 1075, No. 410             Cl. 27
                                  AN ACT

     To alleviate pollution of streams from abandoned coal mines
        within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; granting to the
        Department of Mines and Mineral Industries certain duties and
        powers relating thereto and making an appropriation therefor.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The Secretary of the Department of Mines and
     Mineral Industries shall initiate an immediate action program to
     correct pollution from abandoned deep and strip mines on each of
     the watersheds in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        Section 2.  The Secretary of Mines and Mineral Industries
     shall present an annual progress report to the Governor and the
     Governor to the Sanitary Water Board.
        Section 3.  There is hereby appropriated to the Department of
     Mines and Mineral Industries for the foregoing and
     administrative expenses the sum of five hundred thousand dollars
     ($500,000), or as much thereof as may be necessary.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.