ELR Citation: ELR 21464
No(s). 91-2275 (TAF) (D.D.C. Sep 21, 1993)

The court vacates a determination by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) that subsidence from underground coal mining was exempt from the definition of "surface coal mining operations" in §701(28) of the Surface Mining Control and reclamation Act (SMCRA) and thus would not be prohibited in pr...