Feds release $51 million in coal-tax funds

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: May 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM MST

Story Updated: May 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM MST

CHEYENNE, WYOMING - The federal government says it's distributing more than $51 million to Wyoming as part of the Abandoned Mine Land program.

The program uses taxes on coal production to clean up abandoned mine sites and related pollution. The $51 million is part of an $82.7-million distribution to Wyoming as part of the federal program this year. A payment of $30 million in March is going to coal-site reclamation work. Wyoming lawmakers have already divided up the remaining $51 million for three projects not involving reclamation.

Those are $17.4 million for the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources operating budget, $20 million for the School of Energy Research to build a gasification facility and technology center and $10 million to build a road to a planned coal-to-liquid plant in Carbon County.

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