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The coal mining industry continues to experience fatalities resulting from surge piles . Commenters also assert that , applying " the definition of surface mining ' contained in the Act , i.e ., " surface impacts incident to an underground mine , ' " the Sixth Circuit concluded that under section 522 ( e ) , " no coal mining which disturbs the surface shall be permitted * * * on any federal lands within the boundaries of any national forest . Sections 201 ( f ) and 517 ( g ) of the Act make it a crime for employees performing any function or duty under the Act to knowingly have a direct or indirect financial interest in any coal mining operation . For instance , why would Congress allow a company that has literally taken over the coal mining production of a defunct signatory operator ( assuming such a company is a successor in interest ) to escape liability , but pin financial responsibility on a successor in interest to a company that was unrelated to the coal industry-say , a trucking company-merely because the trucking company and the signatory coal operator were under common financial control prior to the passage of the Coal Act ? This region had also accounted for 66 percent of all coal mining fatalities the previous year . For example , under a literal interpretation of 9701 ( c ) ( 2 ) ( A ) , a thrice-removed successor in interest to a food distributor under common control with a signatory coal mine operator would be liable for the health benefits of a signatory 's retired coal miners , while a company like Jericol , a coal mining direct successor in interest to a signatory operator , would be excluded from liability . " " This case raises the issue of whether the general partners of a coal mining partnership may be held liable under [ SMCRA ] for the partnership 's unpaid reclamation fees after the individual partners ' debts have been discharged in bankruptcy . " Carbon Hill is a coal mining town of approximately 2500 population in Walker County , northern Alabama . " The state court affirmed the Reclamation Board of Review 's finding that " Kimble 's extraction of coal was incidental to a permitted highway project , and was therefore not a coal mining operations " . During the ten-year period from February 1 , 1996 to February 1 , 2006 , the coal mining industry reported approximately 650 ignitions . Additionally and as I authorized during the hearing , the applicant 's attorney furnished by letter dated March 11 , 1980 , a copy of the coal mining agreement between the Minich 's and the applicant . Salt of the Earth was made in 1953 about a coal mining strike in New Mexico . The AFSC had started a child feeding program in the coal mining areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 1931 , at Herbert Hoover 's request .