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DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 1996               TAG: 9610080049
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: B-8  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, W.VA. (AP)

DOMESTIC COAL PRODUCTION DROPS

Domestic coal production fell 4 percent to 21.7 million tons during the week ended Sept. 28 from 22.4 million tons the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.

The U.S. coal industry produced 21.4 million tons in the same week last year, according to the department's Energy Information Administration.

Virginia mines produced 766,000 tons during the survey week, up from 752,000 the previous week and fom 644,000 tons in the corresponding week a year earlier.

Domestic coal production so far this year is 787 million tons, 2 percent ahead of last year's production at this time.

- Associated Press

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