WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony by John Stefanko, deputy secretary of the Office of Active and Abandoned Mine Operations at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, on behalf of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission, as part of a virtual hearing entitled "Restoring Abandoned Mine Lands, Local Economies, and the Environment" on March 18, 2021:

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