Friday, April 5           


8:00 a.m          WIEB/OSM Meeting

   Location:  Remington Room, 2^nd Floor, Embassy Suites
   1881 Curtis St., Denver

                        Organization of the meeting
                        Welcome to OSM Director Jarrett

·        Mike Long (CO), Chairman
WIEB Reclamation Committee

            Innovation in Western State Program

    AK  Ed Fogels               Overview of Alaska Mining Activities including their
                                          Electronic Permitting System
    CO  David Berry           Colorado/OSM Relationships –  Oversight Team,
                                         WRTT, NTTP, and TIPS; Bond Release Status/
                                         Status/Highlights, Permitting System, Imaging Initiative
    MT  Angela McDannel   Tools for Analysis and Presentation of Data in the
                                          CHIA
    NM  David Clark           Electronic Permitting, Integrated Operational
                                          Databases, GIS Uses, Final Bond Releases in NM, 
                                          Creation of Geomorphic-based Post-mine
                                          Topography
  ND    David Bickel          North Dakota Electronic Permitting Program and
                                         Digital Imaging Initiative
  UT     Susan White           The Practical Guide to Reclamation in UT
            Lowell Braxton      Overview of UT’s Coal Program
   WY   Roberta Hoy         Cooperative Efforts WY/OSM, Blasting, Bond
                                          Release, Interagency Efforts, Hydrology

(If you would like a copy of one of the above power point presentations, please contact sharon@westgov.org).   

9:45 a.m.          Break

10 a.m.             Policy Issues (with working lunch)

• National guidance on PHC/CHIA.

• Actions in the East, particularly in West Virginia, that may have implications for the West, including the programmatic EIS and related issues of bonding, blasting, stream buffer zones, and role of the EPA in reclamation decisions under SMCRA.

• The status of a programmatic agreement on national historic preservation.

• Ensuring adequate funding for Title V grants.

• Inquiring how receptive OSM would be in exploring modified revegetation standards to facilitate bond release and facilitate ecosystem development.

• OSM action on subsidence rules governing water replacement and how such rules fit with western water law.

• Other

 Noon               Working lunch

1:30 p.m.          Adjourn

 WIEB Contact:  Doug Larson, (303) 573-8910, e-mail:  dlarson@westerngov.org
 OSM Contact: Linda Wagner, (303) 844-1450, e-mail:  lwagner@osmre.gov
 OSM Lodging Contact:  Karen Pierson, (303) 844-1400, ext. 1487, kpierson@osmre.gov