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Department of Mines seeks IT upgrade, hydrologist and reclamation funding to modernize oversight
Summary
The Department of Mines told the House subcommittee it is digitizing decades of paper permits, tightening inspection processing times and needs a hydrologist and funding to finish reclamation at forfeited sites.
Susan Rodnansky, director of the Oklahoma Department of Mines, briefed the House appropriations subcommittee on agency operations and a small package of funding requests to modernize permitting, inspection and reclamation.
Rodnansky said inspectors now deliver 90% of inspection reports electronically and that the agency has shortened permit processing times. "We were able to cut that processing time by about 50%. So something that was taking 16 weeks to get issued ... we could get a mining permit out in…
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