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• Conrad, P.W., Sweigard, R.J., Graves, D.H., Ringe, J.M., and Pelkii, M.H., 2002, Impacts of spoil conditions on reforestation of surface mined land: Mining Engineering, Technical Papers, p. 39-46.
• Daniels, W.L., Stewart, B., and Dove, D., 1995, Reclamation of coal refuse disposal areas: Virginia Cooperative Extension, Reclamation Guidelines for Surface Mined Land in Southwest Virginia, Powell River Project, Publication 460-131, 16 p. http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/mines/460-131/460-131.html
• Daniels, W.L., and Stewart, B. R., 2000, Reclamation of Appalachian coal refuse disposal areas, in Barnhisel, R.I., Darmody, R.G., and Daniels, W.L., eds., Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands:  American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Agronomy Monograph 41, p. 433-459.
• Kim, A.G., and Chalken, R.F., 1993, Fires in abandoned coal mines and waste banks: U.S. Bureau of Mines, Information Circular 9352, 58 p.
• Nawrot, J.R., and Gray, B., 2000, Principles and practices of tailings reclamation: coal refuse, in Barnhisel, R.I., Darmody, R.G., and Daniels, W.L., eds., Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands:  American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Agronomy Monograph 41, p. 451-488.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1976, Resource Conservation Recovery Act- 42 U.S.C. s/s 6901 et seq. (1976), http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/rcra.htm

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