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Show t uture of strip mining m U.S. hinges on decision of high court i The A ruling the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down late this winter or early spring may determine the future of strip mining in the United States. The court will rule on the legality of key provisions of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act which two federal district court Center have filed a judgesinandIndiana- friend-of-the-cou- sions. It took many years of hearings and debates before Congress passed and the President signed the Surface Mining Act, stud Norman eration, the Appalachian Coalition, the Council of Southern Mountians, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, and the Tug Valley Recovery attorney for the Dean, Thursday, Jan. 22, 1 981 t, B5 . suited in unreclaimed lands, mg states would prefer to careful balance between the' floods, and destruction of need for protection of our fish and wildlife habitat. The land and the production of present challenge to the act could be crippling, he said. coal. The coal industry has Dean pointed out that the law was passed because the contended that surface min-in-g regulations are burdenstate governments failed to some and too expensive. In control surface mining. strip mining re-- aaaition, many themselves. Last January, a federal district court in Virginia ruled unconstitutional a section of the Surface Mining Act requiring that mined land, including steep slopes, be returned to its approxi- mate original contour after it National Wildlife Federation. The Act represents a rt brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court deci- Abingpolis, Indiana, don, Virginiahave already held unconstitutional. Five environmental groups the National Wildlife Fed- i Times-lndependen- water pollution, erosion, surface regulate coal-produ- c- is mined. Five months later the Indiana court invalidated another section of the Act which permits mining on mining prime farmland only if it can be demonstrated that the land will be just as productive after it is mined as it was in its condition. These two district court pre-min- ed " decisions strike at the very heart of the Surface Mining Act and make the achievement of its public purpose impossible, say the environmental groups in their brief. Congress has determined that coal production was to be directed into areas where friend-of-the-cou- rt reclamation was possible and discouraged or prohibited in areas where it wasnt, says the brief. The two district court decisions would turn this Congressional purpose on its head by rendering the government powerless to halt mining in exactly those most sensitive environments Congress meant to protect. 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