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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

Use of Brownfields Mine-Scarred Land Initiative to Clean Up Abandoned Mines

This fact sheet raises awareness of the availability of EPA's Brownfields Program to address mine-scarred lands, most of which are legacy remnants of abandoned coal and hard rock mines.

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Use of Brownfields Mine-Scarred Land Initiative to Clean Up Abandoned Mines (PDF)(2 pp, 50 K)