2018 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 35 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 11 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
ARTICLE 12 - ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION PROGRAM
SECTION 35-11-1210 - Abandoned mine land funds reserve account.
35-11-1210. Abandoned mine land funds reserve account.
(a) There is created the abandoned mine land funds reserve account.
(b) All funds received from the federal government, from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006, Section 411(h)(1), pursuant to 2007 H.R. 6111, shall be deposited into the abandoned mine land funds reserve account.
(c) All funds and all interest generated on the funds, shall remain in the abandoned mine land funds reserve account until appropriated by the legislature.
(d) The funds under subsection (b) of this section are separate from and in addition to the funds distributed to Wyoming for the abandoned mine land program under W.S. 35-11-1201 through 35-11-1209.
(e) There is created the abandoned mine land funds balancing account. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, the legislature may deposit into the balancing account and appropriate therefrom funds as it determines appropriate to substitute for or supplement abandoned mine land funds received from the federal government, from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006, Section 411(h)(1).
