June 6 (UPI) -- The Department of the Interior on Friday announced approval of a mining plan modification for Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana. It authorizes Signal Peak Energy LLC to mine roughly 22.8 million tons of federal coal.
It also permits the company to mine 34.5 million tons of adjacent non-federal coal.
The mine is in Musselshell and Yellowstone counties and exports coal to Japan and South Korea.
"By unlocking access to coal in America, we are not only fueling jobs here at home, but we are also standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies abroad," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement.
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