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SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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... The worsening energy shortage and the recent decline in coal mining productivity stimulated the Panel to consider all factors influencing coal mining activities so that it could make recommendations for improving the environmental acceptability of coal mining and the health and safety of miners while also increasing productivity and improving the economics of coal mining.
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... 9. A national energy policy that defines the role of coal in meeting future energy requirements is needed to encourage industry to make the long-range capital commitments necessary to develop domestic coal reserves to assist the nation in meeting basic energy needs.
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... 4. Underground mining productivity per man-day should be increased at least to the levels achieved in the late 1960s while meeting health and safety standards, through improved labor-management relations, improved regulating climate, improved training programs, and broader application of improved mining technology.
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  • underground mining
  • coal reserves
  • surface mining
  • mining technology
  • mining productivity

  • increased productivity
  • safety standards
  • dust control
  • coal productivity
  • available coal

  • coal seam
  • domestic coal
  • improved mining
  • influencing coal
  • metallurgical coal

  • decrease coal
  • recoverable coal
  • coal mine
  • western coal
  • coal industry

  • mining population
  • suitable mining
  • mining career
  • mining industry
  • mining activities

  • mining characteristics
  • improved training
  • improved miner
  • underground mines
  • improved regulating


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