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Prior Balance Replacement Funds
The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 24, 2025. It took effect on January 23, 2026. Comments closed on December 24, 2025.
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What the agency says
This direct final rule revises the Federal regulations to rescind provisions that required the distribution and awarding of prior balance replacement funds, which are moneys from the United States Treasury's General Fund that replaced State or Tribal share funds that were allocated before October 1, 2007, but never appropriated by Congress.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-20830
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Direct final rule; request for comments
- Agency
- Interior Department; Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
- Published
- November 24, 2025
- Takes effect
- January 23, 2026
- Comments due
- December 24, 2025
- Dates
- The final rule is effective January 23, 2026, unless significant adverse comments are received by December 24, 2025. If significant adverse comments are received, notice will be published in the Federal Register before the effective date either withdrawing the rule or issuing a new final rule that responds to significant adverse comments.
- Docket
- Docket No. OSM-2025-0012 S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 256S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 25XS501520
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1029-AC95
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 872
- Topics
- Indians-lands; Surface mining; Underground mining
- Pages
- 2
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