Data / Federal rules / 2024-16540
Montana Regulatory Program; Reopening Comment Period
The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 30, 2024. It took effect on August 7, 2023. Comments closed on August 14, 2024.
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What the agency says
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), are reopening the public comment period in response to feedback received in response to a concern letter for a proposed amendment to the Montana regulatory program (hereinafter, the Montana program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Montana proposed this amendment to OSMRE, on its own initiative, following its passing of Montana House Bill 576 (2023), which amends the Montana Code Annotated (Mont. Code Ann.). Montana proposes changes to the definition of material damage and changes to permit requirements related to hydrologic information. HB 576 also adds four contingencies to the proposed amendments of the Mont. Code Ann.: a severability clause, a contingent voidness clause, an effective date clause, and a retroactive applicability clause. This document gives the times and locations that the Montana program and this revised proposed amendment to that program are available for your inspection and the comment period during which you may submit written comments on the revised amendment.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-16540
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; public comment period reopening
- Agency
- Interior Department; Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
- Published
- July 30, 2024
- Takes effect
- August 7, 2023
- Comments due
- August 14, 2024
- Dates
- The comment period for the proposed rule published at 88 FR 52084 (August 7, 2023), which was reopened at 88 FR 64853 (September 20, 2023), is reopened again. We will accept written comments on this amendment until 4 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), August 14, 2024.
- Docket
- SATS No. MT-042-FOR; Docket ID: OSM-2023-0007; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 245S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 24XS501520
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 926
- Topics
- Surface mining
- Pages
- 2
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