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• National Research Council, 1975, Underground disposal of coal mine wastes: a report to the National Science Foundation Study Committee to assess the feasibility of returning underground coal mine wastes to the mined-out areas: National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 172  p.
• National Research Council, 2002, Coal waste impoundments—risks, responses, and alternatives: Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 244 p., http://fermat.nap.edu/books/030908251X/html/index.html
• Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 2002, Report on Oct. 2000 breakthrough at the Big Branch slurry impoundment: U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 79 p., http://www.osmre.gov/martincounty030402.htm
• Sweigard, R., 1992, Reclamation, in Hartman, H.L., ed., Mining Engineering Handbook, 2nd ed. Littleton, CO, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, p. 1181-1197.

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