Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  William D. Watson 
Author-Name:  Richard Bernknopf
Title:  Maximum Economic Recovery of Federal Coal
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  59-80
Volume:  Volume 5
Issue:  Number 3
Year:  1984
Abstract:  The federal coal leasing program recently established by the Department of the Interior (DOI) (Federal Register, July 19, 1979) includes a requirement that operators mining federal coal achieve "maximum economic recovery" (MER) of coal from federal leases. The MER requirement, the focus of this paper, has its legislative origins in the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976 which directs that "the Secretary (of Interior) shall evaluate and compare the effects of recovering coal by deep mining, by surface mining, and by any other method to determine which method or sequence of methods achieves the maximum economic recovery (emphasis added) of the coal within the proposed leasing tract ... no mining operating plan shall be approved which is not found to achieve the maximum economic recovery of the coal within the tract."
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