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Kentucky Regulatory Program
The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 15, 2024. It took effect on September 16, 2024.
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What the agency says
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), are approving an amendment, with one exception, to the Kentucky regulatory program (Kentucky program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). We are approving changes to statutory provisions that involve civil penalty fund distributions, self-bonding, and major permit revisions related to underground mining. We are not approving a provision that involves civil penalty escrow accounts.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-18040
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; approval of amendment, with one exception
- Agency
- Interior Department; Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
- Published
- August 15, 2024
- Takes effect
- September 16, 2024
- Dates
- The rule is effective September 16, 2024.
- Docket
- SATS No. KY-260-FOR; Docket ID: OSM-2018-0008; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 245S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 24XS501520
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 917
- Topics
- Intergovernmental relations; Surface mining; Underground mining
- Pages
- 5
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