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Ohio Regulatory Program
The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 7, 2026. It took effect on September 8, 2026.
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What the agency says
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), is approving, in part, two amendments to the Ohio regulatory program (the Ohio program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). As proposed by Ohio, the amendment involves statutory and regulatory changes to its bonding program (i.e., revising Ohio's alternative bonding system and providing the option for an applicant to post full-cost performance securities) and also includes statutory and regulatory changes pertaining to other subjects, such as abandoned mine land program funding, permitting standards, valid existing rights, remining, blasting, and topsoil handling. Ohio submitted this amendment, in part, to satisfy a program condition related to bonding inadequacies. We are removing this program condition.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-16136
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; partial approval of amendment
- Agency
- Interior Department; Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
- Published
- August 7, 2026
- Takes effect
- September 8, 2026
- Dates
- The effective date is September 8, 2026.
- Docket
- SATS No. OH-252-FOR; Docket No. OSM-2011-0003; SATS No. OH-262-FOR; Docket No. OSM-2019-0006; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 261S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 26XS501520
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 935
- Topics
- Intergovernmental relations; Surface mining; Underground mining
- Pages
- 35
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