Western Region
http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov
WR: The Office of Surface Mining's (OSMRE's) Western Regional Center (WR) is located in Denver, Colorado, with Field Offices located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in Casper, Wyoming and Olympia, Washington. The geographic area covered by WR includes Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Washington, California and Alaska. The Western Regional Office also administers the Federal Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Program which includes emergency projects in seven non-program states, four program states, and three program tribes. High priority reclamation projects are also carried out in seven non-program states and 14 non-program tribes.
In the West, OSM has delegated the administration of SMCRA on Federal lands to regulatory agencies in the States of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. This delegated authority is pursuant to Section 523(c) of SMCRA and State-Federal Cooperative Agreements between the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of the respective State. The Indian Lands Program in the Western Region currently includes seven active operations and three inactive operations in reclamation on the Navajo, Hopi, Crow and Ute Mountain Ute reservations, in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Colorado. These coal operations encompass about 118,000 acres or roughly 185 square miles of surface area and include some of the largest coal mines in the country.
WRO is also the home of the Technology Transfer and TIPS programs.
Mid-Continent Region
http://www.mcrcc.osmre.gov/
MCR: The Mid-Continent Region was established May 1, 1995 and includes responsibilities associated with Abandoned Mine Land (AML) emergencies in Iowa and Texas, mining plan approvals on leased Federal coal for Federal Lands in Alabama and Oklahoma, maintenance of State regulatory and AML programs, Technology development and transfer which includes training, technology dissemination, and technical assistance for eleven states. The Mid-Continent region covers all the States of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Appalachian Region
http://www.arcc.osmre.gov
AR: The Appalachian Region (AR) is the easternmost of three regional offices within the United States Office of Surface Mining (OSM). The AR office is responsible for OSM Field Offices in Charleston, West Virginia; Lexington, Kentucky; Big Stone Gap, Virginia; and Knoxville, Tennessee. The AR includes Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia.
The Appalachian Regional office is made up of the Applicant Violator System Office (AVSO) in Lexington, Kentucky; the Federal Reclamation Program Division (FRPD); the Technology Support Division (PSD); and the Pittsburgh Field Division (PFD), with offices in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Columbus, Ohio.
The Federal Reclamation Programs Division’s (FRPD) primary responsibility is to administer the Federal Abandoned Mined Land (AML) emergency program in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, Michigan, Rhode Island and Georgia. These emergencies are the result of improperly reclaimed coal mines that occurred before passage of the Federal surface mining law. The most common types of emergencies are the result of coal mine subsidence, mine fires, or landslides. FRPD maintains two Mine Map Repositories, one in Green Tree, Pennsylvania, which maintains mine map information for the entire country, and one in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, which also has maps of the anthracite region in northeastern Pennsylvania.
