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PITTSBURGH FIELD DIVISION (PFD)

Maryland
Ohio
Pennsylvania

The Pittsburgh Field Division serves four primary functions in the Appalachian Region:

• Oversight of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio approved state regulatory programs and Michigan federal program;
• Oversight of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio AML state reclamation plans;
• Coordination for grant budgeting, award, monitoring, and closeout;
• Coordination of submittal, review, award, monitoring, and closeout of Watershed Cooperative Agreements

Additional Division responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and analyzing proposed state program amendments and monitoring and evaluating Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland regulatory programs, cooperative agreements and abandoned mine land (AML) reclamation programs.
• Assisting in resolving identified program issues.
• Developing annual performance agreements with our responsible States that defines the oversight and assistance activities for the current evaluation year.
• Conducting performance reviews in accordance with the negotiated performance agreement
• Inspecting mines in accordance with existing OSM policy, citizen concerns or concerns from routine program and document review.
• Providing technical assistance or access to technical assistance on issues relating to mine permitting, compliance monitoring, mitigation, AML issues or reclamation decisions.
• Reviewing grant documents and assuring programmatic compliance with all grant conditions.
• Assisting our responsible States in pursuing reclamation of the most serious and high priority non-emergency AML sites.

The Pittsburgh Field Division has offices located in:

• Columbus, Ohio
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Published Reports (in PDF format)

The contact for Pittsburgh Field Division is:

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