Mountaintop removal panel plans final meeting: Legislation may be needed to implement findings of task force

The Underwood administration has not yet concluded how, or if, itwill implement the findings of a task force asked to reviewmountaintop removal strip mining.

"There's a good chance" that legislation will be needed, said DanPage, spokesman for Gov. Cecil Underwood.

Underwood will receive the task force's final report a day or twoafter the group holds its final meeting, which is scheduledWednesdayevening, Page said.Marshall University President Wade Gilley, chairman of the taskforce, and three of its members briefed Underwood Monday afternoon,Page said."It was the governor's first briefing on this," Page said."He told them to 'go …