Oversight on the Bureau of Mines Budget: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mines and Mining of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ... March 8, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 90 pages |
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1977 BUDGET REQUEST activities additional ALAN STEELMAN alloys alumina aluminum Alunite annual basic Boulder City Bureau of Mines chromium coal mining collection and analysis committee completed Congress contracts cost critical minerals data collection demonstration deposits economic efforts energy engineering environmental expanded exploration extraction FALKIE Federal FISCAL YEAR 1977 funding Geological Survey Glacier Bay Government HAROLD RUNNELS health and safety helium impact important improved increase longwall mining metal and nonmetal metallurgy research methane million acres MINERAL AND MATERIALS mineral evaluations mineral information mineral potential mineral resource mineral studies mineral surveys MINES FISCAL Mining and Mineral mining research mining technology MINK molybdenum nickel nodules nonmagnetic taconite nonmetallic ocean mining oil shale oil shale extraction percent pilot plant platinum potash problems processing production proposed question recovery recycling RUPPE safety research SANTINI subcommittee substitute supply technical techniques waste Wilderness Act wilderness areas Wilderness Program
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Page 52 - EXPANDED METALLURGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT The Mines and Mining Subcommittee of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs posed a question of what the Metallurgy program of the Bureau of Mines would be if an additional $10 million were available. With an additional $10 million over the Administration's fiscal year 1977
Page 2 - the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to said industries. . ." The authorities and responsibilities of the Bureau of Mines have remained very much the same since the original basic Organic Act of 1910.
Page 27 - The Helium Program The Bureau operates the Federal Government's helium program under 50 USC 167. The program is designed to provide helium for the current and foreseeable future requirements for helium for essential Government activities.
Page 18 - encouraging, with production consistently above comparable sections in the same mine; oA demonstration of longwall mining in the Illinois Basin. Shield-type supports are being fabricated and panel development is underway. The purpose is to demonstrate applicability of longwall mining in an area where previous longwall attempts have been unsuccessful. Coal Preparation
Page 2 - In 1941, the Coal Mine Inspection Act authorized the Bureau to regularly inspect health and safety conditions in coal mines. This function remained a part of the Bureau of Mines until 1973, when the burgeoning responsibilities of both research and regulatory programs made advisable the creation of a new agency within the Department of the Interior: the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration.
Page 75 - Expanding radiation hazards in uranium mines. As mines go deeper, radiation problems increase in severity and complexity. More extensive testing would be performed. Education and training programs. Present training practices may be outmoded as evidenced by increasing injury frequency rates. New
Page 61 - Noise control in beneficiation plants and underground working places. Since enforcement of noise control regulations began, over 900 active notices have accumulated on violations in metal and nonmetal operations. Effective technology for noise control is urgently needed to preclude future violations.
Page 17 - A facility to test mining equipment on the surface under simulated mining conditions is under construction. Among the studies that have been completed or are nearly complete are: oA cost benefit analysis of the coal
Page 75 - plants and underground working places. Since enforcement of noise control' regulations began, over 900 active notices have accumulated on violations in metal and nonmetal operations. Effective technology for noise control is urgently needed to preclude future violations.
Page 75 - ore transportation systems. As haulage costs have increased the size of trucks, bulldozers, front-end loaders, etc., to mammoth proportions, immediate needs exist for R&D efforts in driver/operations, visibility and control of these heavy vehicles on steep grades.