OSM NEWS
U. S. Department of the Interior
Office of Surface Mining

For Release: January 13, 2000 Jerry Childress (202) 208-2719
jchildre@osmre.gov

OSM RELEASES ANNUAL REPORTS ON CD-ROM

Kathy Karpan, Director of the Interior Department's Office of Surface
Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), today released a 20 year compilation of
the agency's
Annual Reports on CD-ROM disk.

"We are making these out-of-print reports available in response to the
many people who
want to compare annual statistics contained in them," Karpan said.

Copies of the CD, which contains each OSM annual report from
1978-1998, will be
distributed to the public upon request. They may be ordered electronically at
www.osmre.gov/order1.htm, or contact: Chuck Meyers, Office of
Communications, Office of
Surface Mining, 1951 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240,
Telephone
202-208-7940, Fax 202-501-0549.

-DOI-

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