KC Counts speaks with Lloyd Moiola, environmental manager for New Mexico Abandoned Mine Land Program about projects across the state and specifically the award-winning work done at Community Pit No. 1. Here's a transcript of their conversation:

KC Counts:

Can I start by asking you what has changed over that time (Moiola’s 28 years with the program)?

Lloyd Moiola:

Primarily, we're both funded to work primarily on reclaiming abandoned coal mines as well as hard rock. But throughout the years, there's been several changes to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which is the law that formed the AML programs throughout the country. And So our funding has changed. A big change that's happened was with the initiation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. So we receive a lo

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