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Best Practices
As a group of researchers, administrators, educators and scientist, we are working to improve and inform about the workings and building of coal impoundments. Below are guides and information that the Coal Impoundment Project grups is working to develop.

Recent Best Practices Documents
Image of an arrow. Report to Congress: Responses to Recommendations In the National Research Council’s Report Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives (PDF)†
Image of an arrow. Guide to the Management and Operation of West Virginia Coal Refuse Disposal Facilities (PDF)†
Image of an arrow. Guidance Document for Coal Waste Impoundment Facilities & Coal Waste Impoundment Inspection Form (PDF)†
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