Moving the Earth: Cooperative Federalism and Implementation of the Surface Mining Act

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• 1 - Policy Implementation and the Surface Mining Act: An Introduction 1
• 1 - Legislative and Administrative Legacy 15
• 2 - The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Policy Structure, Policy Choices, and the Legacy of Legislation 17
• 3 - Creating a Regulatory Agency: Profile of the Office of Surface Mining 31
• II - Interest Groups and Implementation 47
• 4 - The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and Changes in the Coal Industry Structure 49
• 5 - The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and Environmental Groups 67
• References 84
• References 84
• 6 - Federal-State Relations 87
• References 100
• References 101
• III - Courts and Implementation 103
• 7 - Impacts of Federal Court Decisions on the Administration and Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 105
• References 129
• References 130
• 8 - The Impact of Court Decisions on the Implementation of a State Regulatory Program 131
• IV - State-Level Implementation 147
• 9 - Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act in Pennsylvania: A Decade Later 149
• References 165
• References 165
• 10 - West of the 100th Meridian: Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act in the Western States 167
• References 181
• References 181
• 11 - State Performance Under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 183
• 12 - In the Eye of the Beholder: State and Federal Perceptions About the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Enforcement 197
• References 212
• References 213
• 13 - The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Changes in State Capabilities 215
• Table of Cases 237
• Select Bibliography 239
• Index 243
• List of Contributors 255

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