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Friday - April 26, 2013 |
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Members are reminded that the Property Tax Division of the State Tax Department had extended the time for taxpayers to file property tax returns for reserve coal to next week, May 1st. The original date had been April 1st. The Department has a narrow window of time to process these returns, and ask that you file the returns as they are completed rather than a mass mailing once all have been completed. |
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Friday - April 26, 2013 |
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Mining & Reclamation will hold a Surface Water Runoff Analysis (SWROA) training session on May 14, 2013 at the Charleston Civic Center. To register for the training session contact Leslie Oaks 304-926-0499 ext. 1506 |
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Friday - April 26, 2013 |
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The 2013 Friends of Coal Auto Fair is set for July 19-21st at the YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Sports Complex in Beckley, WV. More than 50,000 people from all over the country are expected throughout the weekend to take in the car show, carnival rides, live music, special performance, surprise guests and festival food. Sponsorship opportunities are available and more up-to-date information can be accessed by visiting: www.friendsofcoalautofair.com |
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Thursday - April 25, 2013 |
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Coal Association issues the following statement regarding a decision in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
“We are disappointed with the decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia to reverse and remand a decision by Judge Amy Berman-Jackson, also of the D.C. Circuit, which overturned a veto of the Spruce mine permit by the U.S. EPA. The three-judge panel remanded the case back to Jackson to consider the remaining parts of the case that related to the specific facts surrounding the Spruce Mine permit.”
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Read more... [WV Coal Association Statement Regarding Federal Court Decision on Spruce Permit]
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Friday - April 05, 2013 |
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On Tuesday, March 27, 2013, the Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety voted to “propose” administrative rules to implement the new standards for machine-mounted, methane gas monitors in underground coal mines.
The proposed rule purports to implement WV Code §22A-2-43 (H) & (I) “Actions to detect and respond to excess methane” and the Board’s charge to promulgate rules establishing calibration procedures, defining the term “sustained period” for purposes of implementing this section, and establishing a compliance schedule.
The Board could not agree on a definition of “sustained period” and opted to solicit comments on this critical term from the mining community. In its proposed rule, the Board established a three (3) year period for new machines to be refitted with new methane monitors and a five (5) year period for existing machines.
A thirty day comment period extending through the month of April was established to receive public comment on the Board’s proposal. The Board’s original deadline for promulgating this rule was October 4, 2012 |
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