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(21) as paragraphs (c)(17) through (24),
and adding new paragraphs (c)(12)
through (16) and (d) to read as follows:
§ 9.59
Arroyo Seco.
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(12) Then south following Paraiso
Road to its intersection with an
unnamed, light-duty road north of Clark
Road in Section 20, T18S/R6E;
(13) Then east-southeast along the
unnamed road for 0.3 mile to its
intersection with an intermittent stream;
(14) Then southwesterly along the
intermittent stream for 0.2 mile to its
intersection with the western boundary
of Section 21, T18S/R6E;
(15) Then south-southwest in a
straight line for approximately 0.3 mile
to the intersection of Clark Road and the
southern boundary of Section 21, T18S/
R6E;
(16) Then west-southwest along Clark
Road for 0.2 mile to its intersection with
an unnamed, light-duty road;
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(d) Transition period. A label
containing the words ‘‘Arroyo Seco’’ in
the brand name or as an appellation of
origin approved prior to [EFFECTIVE
DATE] may be used on wine bottled
before [DATE 2 YEARS AFTER
EFFECTIVE DATE], if the wine
conforms to the standards for use of the
label set forth in § 4.25 or § 4.39(i) of
this chapter in effect prior to
[EFFECTIVE DATE].
■ 3. Section 9.139 is amended by
redesignating paragraphs (c)(10) through
(22) as paragraphs (c)(18) through (30),
revising paragraphs (c)(1) through (9),
and adding new paragraphs (c)(10)
through (17).
The revisions/additions read as
follows:
§ 9.139
Santa Lucia Highlands.
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(1) From the beginning point, the
boundary follows Limekiln Creek for
approximately 1.2 miles northeast to the
120-foot elevation contour.
(2) Then following the 120-foot
elevation contour in a general
southeasterly direction for
approximately 0.9 mile to where it
intersects with River Road.
(3) Then following River Road in a
southeasterly direction for 0.3 mile to its
intersection with an unimproved road
near the marked 130-foot elevation.
(4) Then follow a straight line
southeast to the terminus of the 110-foot
elevation contour.
(5) Then follow a straight line
southeast 0.9 mile, crossing onto the
Gonzales map, to the Salinas River.
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(6) Then follow the Salinas River in
a south-southeast direction 0.7 mile,
crossing onto the Palo Escrito map, to
the intersection of the Salinas River and
the 120-foot elevation contour.
(7) Then follow the 120-foot contour
south for 1 mile, then southeast to its
intersection with River Road.
(8) Then follow River Road east for
0.1 mile to its intersection with an
unnamed, light-duty road.
(9) Then follow the unnamed road
southeast for 0.2 mile to its intersection
with the 160-foot elevation contour.
(10) Then follow the 160-foot
elevation contour southeasterly for
approximately 5.9 miles to its
intersection with River Road.
(11) Then follow River Road
southeasterly for approximately 1 mile
to the intersection of River, Fort Romie,
and Foothill Roads.
(12) Then following Foothill Road in
a southeasterly direction for
approximately 4 miles to the junction of
Foothill Road and Paraiso Roads on the
Soledad map.
(13) Then follow Paraiso Road in a
southerly direction, crossing onto the
Paraiso Springs map, to its intersection
with an unnamed, light-duty road north
of Clark Road in Section 20, T18S/R6E.
(14) Then follow the unnamed road
east-southeast for 0.3 mile to its
intersection with an intermittent stream.
(15) Then follow the intermittent
stream in a southwesterly direction for
0.2 mile to its intersection with the
western boundary of Section 21, T18S/
R6E.
(16) Then follow a straight line southsouthwest for 0.3 mile to the
intersection of Clark Road and the
southern boundary of Section 21, T18S/
R6E.
(17) Then follow Clark Road westsouthwest for 0.2 mile to its intersection
with an unnamed, light-duty road.
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Signed: March 10, 2020.
Mary G. Ryan,
Acting Administrator.
Approved: June 2, 2020.
Timothy E. Skud,
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax, Trade, and
Tariff Policy).
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
30 CFR Part 943
[SATS No. TX–071–FOR; Docket ID: OSM–
2019–0011; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000
201S180110; S2D2S SS08011000
SX064A000 20XS501520]
Texas Abandoned Mine Land
Reclamation Plan
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment
period and opportunity for public
hearing on proposed amendment.
AGENCY:
We, the Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
(OSMRE), are announcing receipt of a
proposed amendment to the Texas
Abandoned Mine Land Plan
(hereinafter, the Plan) under the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Texas
proposes revisions to its Plan to allow
its AML program to receive limited
liability protection for certain non-coal
reclamation projects. Texas intends to
revise its Plan in order to meet the
requirements of SMCRA and the
implementing Federal regulations. This
document gives the times and locations
where the Texas Plan and this proposed
amendment to that Plan are available for
your inspection, establishes the
comment period during which you may
submit written comments on the
amendment, and describes the
procedures that we will follow for the
public hearing, if one is requested.
DATES: We will accept written
comments on this amendment until 4:00
p.m., CST, August 19, 2020. If
requested, we will hold a public hearing
on the amendment on August 14, 2020.
We will accept requests to speak at a
hearing until 4:00 p.m., CST on August
4, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by SATS No. TX–071–FOR,
by any of the following methods:
• Mail/Hand Delivery: Joseph R.
Maki, Director, Tulsa Field Office,
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement, 1645 South 101st East
Avenue, Suite 145, Tulsa, Oklahoma
74128–4629.
• Fax: (918) 581–6419.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: The
amendment has been assigned Docket
ID OSM–2019–0011. If you would like
to submit comments go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
SUMMARY:
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Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this rulemaking. For
detailed instructions on submitting
comments and additional information
on the rulemaking process, see the
‘‘Public Comment Procedures’’ heading
of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document.
Docket: For access to the docket to
review copies of the Texas Plan, this
amendment, a listing of any scheduled
public hearings, and all written
comments received in response to this
document, you must go to the address
listed below during normal business
hours, Monday through Friday,
excluding holidays. You may receive
one free copy of the amendment by
contacting OSMRE’s Tulsa Field Office,
or the full text of the program
amendment is available for you to
review at www.regulations.gov.
Joseph R. Maki, Director, Tulsa Field
Office, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1645
South 101st East Avenue, Suite 145,
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128–4629,
Telephone: (918) 581–6430, Email:
jmaki@osmre.gov
In addition, you may review a copy of
the amendment during regular business
hours at the following location: Surface
Mining and Reclamation Division,
Railroad Commission of Texas, 1701
North Congress Avenue, P.O. Box
12967, Austin, Texas 78711–2967,
Telephone: (512) 463–6900.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joseph R. Maki, Director, Tulsa Field
Office. Telephone: (918) 581–6430,
email: jmaki@osmre.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background on the Texas Plan
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
III. Public Comment Procedures
IV. Procedural Determinations
I. Background on the Texas Plan
The Abandoned Mine Land
Reclamation Program was established
by Title IV of the Act (30 U.S.C. 1201
et seq.), in response to concerns over
extensive environmental damage caused
by past coal mining activities. The
program is funded by a reclamation fee
collected on each ton of coal that is
produced. The money collected is used
to finance the reclamation of abandoned
coal mines and for other authorized
activities. Section 405 of the Act allows
States and Tribes to assume exclusive
responsibility for reclamation activity
within the State or on Tribal lands if
they develop and submit to the
Secretary of the Interior for approval, a
program (often referred to as a Plan) for
the reclamation of abandoned coal
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mines. On the basis of these criteria, the
Secretary of the Interior approved the
Texas Plan June 23, 1980. You can also
find later actions concerning the Texas
Plan and amendments to the Plan at 30
CFR 943.25.
II. Description of the Proposed
Amendment
By letter dated December 3, 2019
(Administrative Record No. TX–708),
Texas sent us an amendment to its
program under SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1201
et seq.) in response to a March 6, 2019,
letter (Administrative Record No. TX–
0707) OSMRE sent to Texas in
accordance with 30 CFR 884.15. The
full text of the plan amendment is
available for you to read at the locations
listed above under ADDRESSES.
Effective March 9, 2015, OSMRE
published a final rule allowing certified
AML programs to receive limited
liability protection for certain non-coal
reclamation projects (80 FR 6435). In the
March 6, 2019, letter (Administrative
Record No. TX–0707), we notified Texas
that the state must update its Plan in
order to meet the requirements of
SMCRA and the implementing Federal
regulations.
Texas proposes to amend its Plan to
meet the requirements to receive limited
liability protection for certain non-coal
reclamation projects, and to meet the
requirements of SMCRA and the
implementing Federal regulations.
Texas also proposes to amend several
sections of its Coal Mining Regulations
at 16 TAC Chapter 12. Major revisions
and/or additions include section 12.804,
Reclamation Objectives and Priorities
and section 12.805, Water Supply
Restoration.
Changes and additions to section
12.804 include updating references and
adding project priority information from
Section 403(a) of SMCRA. Changes to
section 12.805 include changing the
section title from Utilities and Other
Facilities to Water Supply Restoration,
defining water supply projects and other
administrative changes.
Any changes not specifically
mentioned here are administrative in
nature and considered not sustentative.
III. Public Comment Procedures
We are seeking your comments on
whether the amendment satisfies the
applicable plan approval criteria of 30
CFR 884.14 and 884.15. If we approve
the amendment, it will become part of
the state Plan.
Electronic or Written Comments
If you submit written comments, they
should be specific, confined to issues
pertinent to the proposed Plan, and
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explain the reason for any
recommended change(s). We appreciate
any and all comments, but those most
useful and likely to influence decisions
on the final plan will be those that
either involve personal experience or
include citations to and analyses of
SMCRA, its legislative history, its
implementing regulations, case law,
other pertinent State or Federal laws or
regulations, technical literature, or other
relevant publications.
We cannot ensure that comments
received after the close of the comment
period (see DATES) or sent to an address
other than those listed (see ADDRESSES)
will be included in the docket for this
rulemaking and considered.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Public Hearing
If you wish to speak at the public
hearing, contact the person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT by
4:00 p.m., CST on August 4, 2020. If you
are disabled and need reasonable
accommodations to attend a public
hearing, contact the person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. We
will arrange the location and time of the
hearing with those persons requesting
the hearing. If no one requests an
opportunity to speak, we will not hold
a hearing.
To assist the transcriber and ensure an
accurate record, we request, if possible,
that each person who speaks at the
public hearing provide us with a written
copy of his or her comments. The public
hearing will continue on the specified
date until everyone scheduled to speak
has been given an opportunity to be
heard. If you are in the audience and
have not been scheduled to speak and
wish to do so, you will be allowed to
speak after those who have been
scheduled. We will end the hearing after
everyone scheduled to speak and others
present in the audience who wish to
speak, have been heard.
Public Meeting
If only one person requests an
opportunity to speak, we may hold a
public meeting rather than a public
hearing. If you wish to meet with us to
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discuss the amendment, please request
a meeting by contacting the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. All such meetings are open to
the public and, if possible, we will post
notices of meetings at the locations
listed under ADDRESSES. We will make
a written summary of each meeting a
part of the administrative record.
IV. Procedural Determinations
Executive Order 12866—Regulatory
Planning and Review
Pursuant to Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Guidance dated October
12, 1993, the approval of state plan
amendments is exempted from OMB
review under Executive Order 12866.
Other Laws and Executive Orders
Affecting Rulemaking
When a State submits a Plan
amendment to OSMRE for review, our
regulations at 30 CFR 884.14 and
884.15, and agency policy require
public notification and an opportunity
for public comment. We accomplish this
by publishing a notice in the Federal
Register indicating receipt of the
proposed amendment and its text or a
summary of its terms. We conclude our
review of the proposed amendment after
the close of the public comment period
and determine whether the amendment
should be approved, approved in part,
or not approved. At that time, we will
also make the determinations and
certifications required by the various
laws and executive orders governing the
rulemaking process and include them in
the final rule.
List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 943
Intergovernmental relations, Surface
mining, Underground mining.
Alfred L. Clayborne,
Regional Director, IR 3, 4 and 6.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
30 CFR Part 948
[SATS No. WV–120–FOR; Docket ID: OSM–
2014–0006; S1D1S SS08011000 SX066A000
201S180110; S2D2S SS08011000
SX066A000 20XS501520]
West Virginia Regulatory Program
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
AGENCY:
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Proposed rule; public comment
period and opportunity for public
hearing.
ACTION:
We, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE),
are announcing receipt of a proposed
amendment to the existing West
Virginia Federal Lands Cooperative
Agreement. Section 523(c) of the
Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the
Act) and the Federal regulations
authorize a State with an approved
permanent regulatory program to enter
into an agreement for the State
regulation and control of surface coal
mining and reclamation operations on
Federal lands. West Virginia’s existing
cooperative agreement was adopted in
February of 1984, between the State and
the Secretary of the Interior (the
Secretary), to allow the State
administration of SMCRA on Federal
lands within West Virginia under its
approved permanent regulatory program
(the West Virginia program). Since
several years have passed since the
original agreement was adopted, West
Virginia is now proposing to amend the
existing cooperative agreement to reflect
the current statutory schemes,
regulatory requirements, and agency
responsibilities associated with the
regulation of coal mining and
reclamation activities on Federal lands.
Additionally, the revised cooperative
agreement would grant the State the
authority to regulate all coal exploration
activities on Federal lands, and would
delegate the primary responsibility to
review and approve coal mining permits
involving federally and privately owned
coal. This document gives the times and
locations that the West Virginia program
and this proposed amendment to that
program are available for your
inspection, the comment period during
which you may submit written
comments on the amendment, and the
procedures that we will follow for the
public hearing, if one is requested.
DATES: We will accept written
comments on this amendment until 4:00
p.m., E.S.T., August 19, 2020. If
requested, we will hold a public hearing
on the amendment on August 14, 2020.
We will accept requests to speak at a
hearing until 4:00 p.m., E.S.T. on
August 4, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by SATS No. WV–120–FOR,
by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. The proposed rule
has been assigned Docket ID OSM–
2014–0006. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments.
• Fax: (304) 347–7170.
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• Mail/Hand Delivery: Mr. Ben
Owens, Field Office Director, Pittsburgh
Field Office, OSMRE, 3 Parkway Center
South, 2nd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15220.
Please include the rule identifier (WV–
120–FOR; Docket ID OSM–2014–0006)
with your written comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this rulemaking. For
detailed instructions on submitting
comments and additional information
on the rulemaking process, see the
‘‘Public Comment Procedures’’ heading
of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document.
Docket: For access to the docket to
review copies of the West Virginia
program, this amendment, a listing of
any scheduled public hearings, and all
written comments received in response
to this document, you must go to the
address listed below during normal
business hours, Monday through Friday,
excluding holidays. You may receive
one free copy of the amendment by
contacting OSMRE’s Charleston Field
Office or the full text of the program
amendment is available for you to read
at https://www.regulations.gov.
Mr. Ben Owens, Pittsburgh Field Office
Director, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 3
Parkway Center South, 2nd Floor,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15220,
Telephone: (412) 937–2827, Email:
chfo@osmre.gov.
In addition, you may review a copy of
the amendment during regular business
hours at the following location:
Mr. Harold Ward, West Virginia
Department of Environmental
Protection, 601 57th Street SE,
Charleston, West Virginia 25304,
Telephone: (304) 926–0490, Email:
harold.d.ward@wv.gov.
In addition, you may review a copy of
the amendment during regular business
hours at the following locations:
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement, Morgantown Area
Office, 604 Cheat Road, Suite 150,
Morgantown, West Virginia 26508,
Telephone: (304) 291–4004 (By
Appointment Only).
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement, Beckley Area
Office, 313 Harper Park Drive, Suite 3,
Beckley, West Virginia 25801,
Telephone: (304) 255–5265.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Ben Owens, Field Office Director,
Pittsburgh Field Office, Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement,
Telephone: (412) 937–2827. Email:
chfo@osmre.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
30 CFR Part 943
[SATS No. TX-071-FOR; Docket ID: OSM-2019-0011; S1D1S SS08011000
SX064A000 201S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 20XS501520]
Texas Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan
AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment period and opportunity for public
hearing on proposed amendment.
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SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
(OSMRE), are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Texas
Abandoned Mine Land Plan (hereinafter, the Plan) under the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Texas
proposes revisions to its Plan to allow its AML program to receive
limited liability protection for certain non-coal reclamation projects.
Texas intends to revise its Plan in order to meet the requirements of
SMCRA and the implementing Federal regulations. This document gives the
times and locations where the Texas Plan and this proposed amendment to
that Plan are available for your inspection, establishes the comment
period during which you may submit written comments on the amendment,
and describes the procedures that we will follow for the public
hearing, if one is requested.
DATES: We will accept written comments on this amendment until 4:00
p.m., CST, August 19, 2020. If requested, we will hold a public hearing
on the amendment on August 14, 2020. We will accept requests to speak
at a hearing until 4:00 p.m., CST on August 4, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by SATS No. TX-071-FOR,
by any of the following methods:
Mail/Hand Delivery: Joseph R. Maki, Director, Tulsa Field
Office, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 1645
South 101st East Avenue, Suite 145, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128-4629.
Fax: (918) 581-6419.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: The amendment has been
assigned Docket ID OSM-2019-0011. If you would like to submit comments
go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments.
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Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and docket number for this rulemaking. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional information on the rulemaking
process, see the ``Public Comment Procedures'' heading of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
Docket: For access to the docket to review copies of the Texas
Plan, this amendment, a listing of any scheduled public hearings, and
all written comments received in response to this document, you must go
to the address listed below during normal business hours, Monday
through Friday, excluding holidays. You may receive one free copy of
the amendment by contacting OSMRE's Tulsa Field Office, or the full
text of the program amendment is available for you to review at
www.regulations.gov.
Joseph R. Maki, Director, Tulsa Field Office, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1645 South 101st East Avenue, Suite 145,
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128-4629, Telephone: (918) 581-6430, Email:
[email protected]
In addition, you may review a copy of the amendment during regular
business hours at the following location: Surface Mining and
Reclamation Division, Railroad Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress
Avenue, P.O. Box 12967, Austin, Texas 78711-2967, Telephone: (512) 463-
6900.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph R. Maki, Director, Tulsa Field
Office. Telephone: (918) 581-6430, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background on the Texas Plan
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
III. Public Comment Procedures
IV. Procedural Determinations
I. Background on the Texas Plan
The Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program was established by
Title IV of the Act (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.), in response to concerns
over extensive environmental damage caused by past coal mining
activities. The program is funded by a reclamation fee collected on
each ton of coal that is produced. The money collected is used to
finance the reclamation of abandoned coal mines and for other
authorized activities. Section 405 of the Act allows States and Tribes
to assume exclusive responsibility for reclamation activity within the
State or on Tribal lands if they develop and submit to the Secretary of
the Interior for approval, a program (often referred to as a Plan) for
the reclamation of abandoned coal mines. On the basis of these
criteria, the Secretary of the Interior approved the Texas Plan June
23, 1980. You can also find later actions concerning the Texas Plan and
amendments to the Plan at 30 CFR 943.25.
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
By letter dated December 3, 2019 (Administrative Record No. TX-
708), Texas sent us an amendment to its program under SMCRA (30 U.S.C.
1201 et seq.) in response to a March 6, 2019, letter (Administrative
Record No. TX-0707) OSMRE sent to Texas in accordance with 30 CFR
884.15. The full text of the plan amendment is available for you to
read at the locations listed above under ADDRESSES.
Effective March 9, 2015, OSMRE published a final rule allowing
certified AML programs to receive limited liability protection for
certain non-coal reclamation projects (80 FR 6435). In the March 6,
2019, letter (Administrative Record No. TX-0707), we notified Texas
that the state must update its Plan in order to meet the requirements
of SMCRA and the implementing Federal regulations.
Texas proposes to amend its Plan to meet the requirements to
receive limited liability protection for certain non-coal reclamation
projects, and to meet the requirements of SMCRA and the implementing
Federal regulations.
Texas also proposes to amend several sections of its Coal Mining
Regulations at 16 TAC Chapter 12. Major revisions and/or additions
include section 12.804, Reclamation Objectives and Priorities and
section 12.805, Water Supply Restoration.
Changes and additions to section 12.804 include updating references
and adding project priority information from Section 403(a) of SMCRA.
Changes to section 12.805 include changing the section title from
Utilities and Other Facilities to Water Supply Restoration, defining
water supply projects and other administrative changes.
Any changes not specifically mentioned here are administrative in
nature and considered not sustentative.
III. Public Comment Procedures
We are seeking your comments on whether the amendment satisfies the
applicable plan approval criteria of 30 CFR 884.14 and 884.15. If we
approve the amendment, it will become part of the state Plan.
Electronic or Written Comments
If you submit written comments, they should be specific, confined
to issues pertinent to the proposed Plan, and explain the reason for
any recommended change(s). We appreciate any and all comments, but
those most useful and likely to influence decisions on the final plan
will be those that either involve personal experience or include
citations to and analyses of SMCRA, its legislative history, its
implementing regulations, case law, other pertinent State or Federal
laws or regulations, technical literature, or other relevant
publications.
We cannot ensure that comments received after the close of the
comment period (see DATES) or sent to an address other than those
listed (see ADDRESSES) will be included in the docket for this
rulemaking and considered.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Public Hearing
If you wish to speak at the public hearing, contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT by 4:00 p.m., CST on
August 4, 2020. If you are disabled and need reasonable accommodations
to attend a public hearing, contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. We will arrange the location and time of the
hearing with those persons requesting the hearing. If no one requests
an opportunity to speak, we will not hold a hearing.
To assist the transcriber and ensure an accurate record, we
request, if possible, that each person who speaks at the public hearing
provide us with a written copy of his or her comments. The public
hearing will continue on the specified date until everyone scheduled to
speak has been given an opportunity to be heard. If you are in the
audience and have not been scheduled to speak and wish to do so, you
will be allowed to speak after those who have been scheduled. We will
end the hearing after everyone scheduled to speak and others present in
the audience who wish to speak, have been heard.
Public Meeting
If only one person requests an opportunity to speak, we may hold a
public meeting rather than a public hearing. If you wish to meet with
us to
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discuss the amendment, please request a meeting by contacting the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All such meetings
are open to the public and, if possible, we will post notices of
meetings at the locations listed under ADDRESSES. We will make a
written summary of each meeting a part of the administrative record.
IV. Procedural Determinations
Executive Order 12866--Regulatory Planning and Review
Pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidance dated
October 12, 1993, the approval of state plan amendments is exempted
from OMB review under Executive Order 12866.
Other Laws and Executive Orders Affecting Rulemaking
When a State submits a Plan amendment to OSMRE for review, our
regulations at 30 CFR 884.14 and 884.15, and agency policy require
public notification and an opportunity for public comment. We
accomplish this by publishing a notice in the Federal Register
indicating receipt of the proposed amendment and its text or a summary
of its terms. We conclude our review of the proposed amendment after
the close of the public comment period and determine whether the
amendment should be approved, approved in part, or not approved. At
that time, we will also make the determinations and certifications
required by the various laws and executive orders governing the
rulemaking process and include them in the final rule.
List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 943
Intergovernmental relations, Surface mining, Underground mining.
Alfred L. Clayborne,
Regional Director, IR 3, 4 and 6.
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