BLM reclamation and sustainable mineral development awards program, 2007

The DOI created the Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards Program to showcase some of the finest examples of responsible mineral resource development. The DOI, through the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSM), has presented reclamation awards to coal operators since the initiation of the awards program in 1986. In 2002, the DOI requested that the BLM institute its own annual awards program and that the program be open to non-coal, solid mineral operations nationally without regard to land ownership.