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Kentucky Regulatory Program
The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on November 17, 2025. Comments closed on December 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), announce receipt of a proposed amendment to the Kentucky regulatory program (Kentucky program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Through this program amendment, Kentucky seeks to amend its law to add a statutory definition for "long-term treatment" and to specify how the additional bonds for long-term treatment are to be calculated.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-20018
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; public comment period and opportunity for public hearing on proposed amendment
- Agency
- Interior Department; Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
- Published
- November 17, 2025
- Comments due
- December 17, 2025
- Dates
- We will accept written comments on this amendment until 4:00 p.m., eastern time, on December 17, 2025. If requested, we may hold a public hearing or meeting on the amendment on December 12, 2025. We will accept requests to speak at a hearing until 4:00 p.m., eastern time, on December 2, 2025.
- Docket
- SATS No. KY-267-FOR; Docket ID: OSM-2025-0023; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 256S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 25XS501520
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 917
- Topics
- Intergovernmental relations; Surface mining; Underground mining
- Pages
- 3
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