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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
p.m., M.D.T., on August 14, 2024. 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.
October 12, 1993, the approval of State
program amendments is exempted from
OMB review under Executive Order
12866, as amended by Executive Order
14094. Executive Order 13563, which
reaffirms and supplements Executive
Order 12866, retains this exemption.
Other Laws and Executive Orders
Affecting Rulemaking
When a State submits a program
amendment to OSMRE for review, our
regulations at 30 CFR 732.17(h) require
us to publish a notice in the Federal
Register indicating receipt of the
proposed amendment, its text or a
summary of its terms, and an
opportunity for public comment.
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 950
Required program amendments, StateFederal cooperative agreement, State
program provisions and amendments
not approved, State regulatory program
approval, Surface mining.
David A. Berry,
Regional Director, Unified Regions 5, 7–11.
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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
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.
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IV. Procedural Determinations
Executive Order 12866—Regulatory
Planning and Review, Executive Order
13563—Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review, and Executive Order
14094—Modernizing Regulatory Review
Executive Order 12866, as amended
by Executive Order 14094, provides that
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs in the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) will review all significant
rules. Pursuant to OMB guidance, dated
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
30 CFR Part 950
[SATS No. WY–053–FOR; Docket ID: OSM–
2024–0003; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000
234S180110; S2D2S SS08011000
SX064A000 23XS501520]
Wyoming Regulatory Program
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 Wyoming
coal regulatory program (Wyoming
program) under the Surface Mining
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
(SMCRA or the Act). On September 13,
SUMMARY:
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2022, the Wyoming Environmental
Quality Council approved a number of
revisions to the Wyoming Land Quality
Division Coal Rules and Regulations
which comprise the Wyoming program.
This document gives the times and
locations that the Wyoming 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
p.m., Mountain Daylight Time (M.D.T.),
August 29, 2024. If requested, we may
hold a public hearing or meeting on the
amendment on August 26, 2024. We
will accept requests to speak at a
hearing until 4 p.m., M.D.T., on August
14, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by SATS No. WY–053–FOR,
by any of the following methods:
• Mail/Hand Delivery: OSMRE, Attn:
Jeffrey Fleischman, P.O. Box 11018, 100
East B Street, Room 4100, Casper,
Wyoming 82602.
• Fax: (307) 261–6552.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting 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 Wyoming program,
this amendment, a listing of any
scheduled public hearings or meetings,
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 Casper Field
Office or the full text of the program
amendment is available for you to read
at www.regulations.gov. Attn: Jeffrey
Fleischman, Field Office Director, Office
of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, 100 East B Street, Casper,
Wyoming 82602, Telephone: (307) 261–
6550, Email: jfleischman@osmre.gov.
In addition, you may review a copy of
the amendment during regular business
hours at the following location: Attn:
Kyle Wendtland, Administrator,
Wyoming Department of Environmental
Quality, Land Quality Division, 200
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West 17th Street, Suite 10, Cheyenne,
Wyoming 82002, Telephone: (307) 777–
7046, email: kyle.wendtland@wyo.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeffrey Fleischman, Field Office
Director, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 100 East
B Street, Casper, Wyoming 82602,
telephone: (307) 261–6550, email:
jfleischman@osmre.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background on the Wyoming Program
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
III. Public Comment Procedures
IV. Procedural Determinations
I. Background on the Wyoming
Program
Section 503(a) of the Act permits a
state to assume primacy for the
regulation of surface coal mining and
reclamation operations on non-Federal
and non-Indian lands within its borders
by demonstrating that its approved State
program includes, among other things,
State laws and regulations that govern
surface coal mining and reclamation
operations in accordance with the Act
and consistent with the Federal
regulations. See 30 U.S.C. 1253(a)(1)
and (7).
On the basis of these criteria, the
Secretary of the Interior conditionally
approved the Wyoming program on
November 26, 1980. You can find
background information on the
Wyoming program, including the
Secretary’s findings, the disposition of
comments, and conditions of approval
of the Wyoming program in the
November 26, 1980 Federal Register at
45 FR 78637. You can also find later
actions concerning the Wyoming
program and program amendments at 30
CFR 950.10.
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II. Description of the Proposed
Amendment
By letter dated May 17, 2024, and
electronically transmitted May 20, 2024
(Docket ID No. OSM–2024–0003),
Wyoming sent us an amendment to its
program under SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1201
et seq.). We found Wyoming’s proposed
amendment administratively complete
on May 23, 2024.
On September 13, 2022, the Wyoming
Environmental Quality Council
approved a number of revisions to the
Wyoming Land Quality Division Coal
Rules and Regulations which comprise
the Wyoming program. Specifically,
Chapter 10 was revised to: make
corrections to statutory citations
contained in the section which relate to
the filing of objections to coal
exploration operations; include
corrections to references to statute
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subsections that were repealed; and
include suggested grammatical and
organizational revisions from the
Attorney General’s Office. Additionally,
Chapter 13 was revised to: make
corrections to statutory citations, similar
to Chapter 10 above; amend the
decision-making process for permit
revision applications, timelines for
decision making, notice requirements
and other procedural adjustments to
comply with the statutory changes to
Wyoming Statute (W.S.) 35–11–406
(Senate File 0044); and include
suggested grammatical and
organizational revisions from the
Attorney General’s Office. The full text
of the program and/or plan amendment
is available for you to read at the
locations listed above under ADDRESSES
or at www.regulations.gov.
III. Public Comment Procedures
Under the provisions of 30 CFR
732.17(h), we are seeking your
comments on whether the amendment
satisfies the applicable program
approval criteria of 30 CFR 732.15. If we
approve the amendment, it will become
part of the State program.
Electronic or Written Comments
If you submit written or electronic
comments on the proposed rule during
the 30-day comment period, they should
be specific, confined to issues pertinent
to the proposed regulations, 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
regulations 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.
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Public Hearing
If you wish to speak at the public
hearing, contact the person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT by 4
p.m., M.D.T. on August 14, 2024. 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 their 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
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 and Executive
Order 13563—Improving Regulation
and Regulatory Review—Executive
Order 14094—Modernizing Regulatory
Review
Executive Order 12866, as amended
by Executive Order 14094, provides that
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs in the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) will review all significant
rules. Pursuant to OMB guidance, dated
October 12, 1993, the approval of State
program amendments is exempted from
OMB review under Executive Order
12866, as amended by Executive Order
14094. Executive Order 13563, which
reaffirms and supplements Executive
Order 12866, retains this exemption.
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Other Laws and Executive Orders
Affecting Rulemaking
When a state submits a program
amendment to OSMRE for review, our
regulations at 30 CFR 732.17(h) require
us to publish a notice in the Federal
Register indicating receipt of the
proposed amendment, its text or a
summary of its terms, and an
opportunity for public comment.
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 950
Required program amendments, StateFederal cooperative agreement, State
regulatory program approval, Surface
mining.
David A. Berry,
Regional Director Unified Regions 5, 7–11.
[FR Doc. 2024–16539 Filed 7–29–24; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R04–OAR–2023–0273; FRL–12121–
01–R4]
Air Plan Approval; FL; Surface Coating
of Miscellaneous Metal Parts and
Products Amendments
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection
(FDEP) on October 12, 2022. The State
is requesting amendments to allow the
option for aerospace parts and products
coating operations in Florida to comply
with the Federal National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) requirements in lieu of the
volatile organic compound (VOC)
standards in Florida’s Surface Coating of
Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products
(MMPP) rule (hereinafter referred to as
FL MMPP Rule) in the Florida SIP. The
State has provided information in its
October 12, 2022, submission to support
the amendments to the FL MMPP Rule
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in the Florida SIP pursuant to the Clean
Air Act (CAA or Act). EPA is proposing
to determine that the changes included
in Florida’s October 12, 2022,
submission are consistent with the
applicable provisions of the CAA.
DATES: Comments are due on or before
August 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R04–
OAR–2023–0273, at
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
EPA may publish any comment received
to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video,
etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is
considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points
you wish to make. EPA will generally
not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Simone Jarvis, Air Regulatory
Management Section, Air Planning and
Implementation Branch, Air and
Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth
Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960.
Ms. Jarvis can be reached via phone
number (404) 562–8393 or via electronic
mail at Jarvis.Simone@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The FL MMPP Rule—Rule 62–
296.513, Surface Coating of
Miscellaneous Metal Parts and
Products—provides specific reasonably
available control technology (RACT)
requirements for sources in Broward,
Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade,
Orange, Palm Beach, or Pinellas
Counties that apply surface coatings to
any number of metal parts and products,
to limit their VOC emission rates,
including surface coating at aerospace
manufacturing operations.1 However,
sources are exempt from regulation
under this rule if they emit no more
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than 15 pounds in any one day and no
more than three pounds in any one
hour. The FL MMPP Rule was
incorporated into the Florida SIP to
address the RACT requirements for
areas that were designated
nonattainment for the 1979 1-hour
ozone standard.2 EPA redesignated
these areas to attainment in 1995.3
In September 1995, EPA promulgated
a NESHAP for Aerospace Manufacturing
and Rework Facilities at 40 CFR part 63,
subpart GG (Aerospace NESHAP). EPA
subsequently amended the Aerospace
NESHAP in 1996, 1998, 2006, 2015, and
2016. In Florida’s October 12, 2022, SIP
revision, the State seeks to amend the
FL MMPP Rule by exempting certain
aerospace parts and products coating
operations from this rule if such
operations comply with requirements of
the applicable provisions of the
Aerospace NESHAP. Area sources 4 of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
previously subject to the FL MMPP Rule
that elect to comply with specific
provisions of the Aerospace NESHAP
related to the ‘‘primer, topcoat, and
specialty coating VOC control
requirements’’ would not be subject to
the requirements of the FL MMPP Rule.
Major sources of HAPs,5 which are
required to comply with the NESHAP
would also not be subject to the FL
MMPP Rule.
Some specialty coatings operations
that use surface coatings with VOC
contents allowed under the Aerospace
NESHAP may be allowed to use
coatings that have higher VOC contents,
which FDEP states could contribute to
de minimus increases in the potential to
2 On November 6, 1991, EPA designated and
classified the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-W. Palm
Beach Area (i.e., Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach
Counties) as moderate nonattainment for the 1979
1-hour ozone NAAQS; the Jacksonville Area (i.e.,
Duval County) as transitional nonattainment; the
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Area (i.e.,
Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties) as marginal
nonattainment; and Orange County as attainment.
See 56 FR 56694. Among the requirements
applicable to nonattainment areas for the 1-hour
ozone NAAQS was the requirement to amend the
SIPs for areas to satisfy the requirements of Section
183 of the CAA.
3 See 60 FR part 41 for the Jacksonville, FL (Duval
County) redesignation. See 60 FR 10325 for the
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-W. Palm Beach, FL (MiamiDade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties)
redesignation. See 60 FR 62748 for the Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater, FL (Hillsborough and
Pinellas Counties) redesignation.
4 Area source means any stationary source of
hazardous air pollutants that is not a major source
as defined in 40 CFR 63.2.
5 Major source means any stationary source or
group of stationary sources located within a
contiguous area and under common control that
emits or has the potential to emit considering
controls, in the aggregate, 10 tons per year or more
of any hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons per year
or more of any combination of hazardous air
pollutants defined in 40 CFR 63.2.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
30 CFR Part 950
[SATS No. WY-053-FOR; Docket ID: OSM-2024-0003; S1D1S SS08011000
SX064A000 234S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 SX064A000 23XS501520]
Wyoming Regulatory Program
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 Wyoming
coal regulatory program (Wyoming program) under the Surface Mining
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). On September
13, 2022, the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council approved a number
of revisions to the Wyoming Land Quality Division Coal Rules and
Regulations which comprise the Wyoming program. This document gives the
times and locations that the Wyoming 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 p.m.,
Mountain Daylight Time (M.D.T.), August 29, 2024. If requested, we may
hold a public hearing or meeting on the amendment on August 26, 2024.
We will accept requests to speak at a hearing until 4 p.m., M.D.T., on
August 14, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by SATS No. WY-053-FOR,
by any of the following methods:
Mail/Hand Delivery: OSMRE, Attn: Jeffrey Fleischman, P.O.
Box 11018, 100 East B Street, Room 4100, Casper, Wyoming 82602.
Fax: (307) 261-6552.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting 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 Wyoming
program, this amendment, a listing of any scheduled public hearings or
meetings, 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 Casper
Field Office or the full text of the program amendment is available for
you to read at www.regulations.gov. Attn: Jeffrey Fleischman, Field
Office Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement,
100 East B Street, Casper, Wyoming 82602, Telephone: (307) 261-6550,
Email: [email protected].
In addition, you may review a copy of the amendment during regular
business hours at the following location: Attn: Kyle Wendtland,
Administrator, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Land
Quality Division, 200
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West 17th Street, Suite 10, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, Telephone: (307)
777-7046, email: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Fleischman, Field Office
Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 100
East B Street, Casper, Wyoming 82602, telephone: (307) 261-6550, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background on the Wyoming Program
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
III. Public Comment Procedures
IV. Procedural Determinations
I. Background on the Wyoming Program
Section 503(a) of the Act permits a state to assume primacy for the
regulation of surface coal mining and reclamation operations on non-
Federal and non-Indian lands within its borders by demonstrating that
its approved State program includes, among other things, State laws and
regulations that govern surface coal mining and reclamation operations
in accordance with the Act and consistent with the Federal regulations.
See 30 U.S.C. 1253(a)(1) and (7).
On the basis of these criteria, the Secretary of the Interior
conditionally approved the Wyoming program on November 26, 1980. You
can find background information on the Wyoming program, including the
Secretary's findings, the disposition of comments, and conditions of
approval of the Wyoming program in the November 26, 1980 Federal
Register at 45 FR 78637. You can also find later actions concerning the
Wyoming program and program amendments at 30 CFR 950.10.
II. Description of the Proposed Amendment
By letter dated May 17, 2024, and electronically transmitted May
20, 2024 (Docket ID No. OSM-2024-0003), Wyoming sent us an amendment to
its program under SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.). We found Wyoming's
proposed amendment administratively complete on May 23, 2024.
On September 13, 2022, the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council
approved a number of revisions to the Wyoming Land Quality Division
Coal Rules and Regulations which comprise the Wyoming program.
Specifically, Chapter 10 was revised to: make corrections to statutory
citations contained in the section which relate to the filing of
objections to coal exploration operations; include corrections to
references to statute subsections that were repealed; and include
suggested grammatical and organizational revisions from the Attorney
General's Office. Additionally, Chapter 13 was revised to: make
corrections to statutory citations, similar to Chapter 10 above; amend
the decision-making process for permit revision applications, timelines
for decision making, notice requirements and other procedural
adjustments to comply with the statutory changes to Wyoming Statute
(W.S.) 35-11-406 (Senate File 0044); and include suggested grammatical
and organizational revisions from the Attorney General's Office. The
full text of the program and/or plan amendment is available for you to
read at the locations listed above under ADDRESSES or at
www.regulations.gov.
III. Public Comment Procedures
Under the provisions of 30 CFR 732.17(h), we are seeking your
comments on whether the amendment satisfies the applicable program
approval criteria of 30 CFR 732.15. If we approve the amendment, it
will become part of the State program.
Electronic or Written Comments
If you submit written or electronic comments on the proposed rule
during the 30-day comment period, they should be specific, confined to
issues pertinent to the proposed regulations, 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
regulations 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 p.m., M.D.T. on
August 14, 2024. 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 their 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 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 and Executive
Order 13563--Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review--Executive
Order 14094--Modernizing Regulatory Review
Executive Order 12866, as amended by Executive Order 14094,
provides that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will review all significant
rules. Pursuant to OMB guidance, dated October 12, 1993, the approval
of State program amendments is exempted from OMB review under Executive
Order 12866, as amended by Executive Order 14094. Executive Order
13563, which reaffirms and supplements Executive Order 12866, retains
this exemption.
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Other Laws and Executive Orders Affecting Rulemaking
When a state submits a program amendment to OSMRE for review, our
regulations at 30 CFR 732.17(h) require us to publish a notice in the
Federal Register indicating receipt of the proposed amendment, its text
or a summary of its terms, and an opportunity for public comment.
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 950
Required program amendments, State-Federal cooperative agreement,
State regulatory program approval, Surface mining.
David A. Berry,
Regional Director Unified Regions 5, 7-11.
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