Costs and Effects of a Water Quality Program for a Small Strip Mining Company

摘要

The report analyzes the quantity and quality of acid mine drainage attributable to current operations of a small strip mine firm and from abandoned underground and surface mines, estimates the costs to the firm in order to meet current legal requirements, estimates the effects of these costs on the firm's level of output and its ability to pass costs forward to consumers or back to mineral lease holders and projects the impact of alternative drainage control programs. The analysis integrates physical and legal factors with economic analysis of the demand and supply schedule for the firm. (Author)