(a) The departments and commissions set forth herein may utilize any available Federal program to augment the funds made available to such department or commission under the provisions of this act.

(b) Within the General Fund there is hereby created a restricted revenue account to be known as the Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Reclamation Account which shall consist of all grants from the Federal Government to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to Title IV of Public Law 95-87, the “Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.”¹ Funds deposited in this account shall be used for the purposes of clause (1) of subsection (a) of section 16, act of January 19, 1968 (1967 P.L. 996, No. 443),² known as “The Land and Water Conservation and Reclamation Act,” and for such other purposes of abandoned mine reclamation as may be authorized by law, subject to such conditions as may be imposed on such grants by the Federal Government. All Federal grants and other revenues or receipts incidental to this program are hereby appropriated to the Department of Environmental Resources and shall require annual executive authorization by the Governor. All such funds shall be a supplement to and shall augment the allotment of moneys made available under clause (1) of subsection (a) of section 16, for the elimination of land and water scars created by past mining practices.