The agency said it would reclaim the Brookville Southeast site in Knox Township, Jefferson County, with about 195,000 cubic yards of grading and gas line relocation.
The DEP contract, which has a price tag of $290,258.50, also includes approximately 525 square yards of high-velocity erosion control mulch blanket, mine seal and seeding to total 27.5 acres of seeding.
The PA DEP will also reclaim the Perryville Northeast site in Perry Township, Clarion County, at a cost of $192,205.
The project includes more than 112,000cu.yd of grading and 85cu.yd of ditch excavation as well as 690sq.yd of erosion control and turf reinforcement mat and 1237 linear feet of subsurface drain and 11 acres of seeding.
Work at both sites is underway.
The DEP said the work at the Jefferson County site, which is being performed by E M Brown, is expected to be completed in November 2014.
The Clarion County site work, which is being done by J & J Snyder, should wrap up by next September.
The Pennsylvania Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation administers and oversees the abandoned mine reclamation program in the state and oversees the resolution of problems such as mine fires, mine subsidence, dangerous highwalls, open shafts and portals, mining-impacted water supplies and other hazards that have resulted from past coal mining (pre-1977) practices.
The funding stream for such projects comes from Office of Surface Mining and the fees it collects from the nation’s coal industry.
