Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement February 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996, the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) is announcing its intention to renew its authority for the collection of information for 30 CFR Part 875 Noncoal Reclamation.

We, the Office of Surface Mining (OSM), are announcing the withdrawal of a proposed rule pertaining to a request to delete a required amendment related to the Pennsylvania regulatory program (the Pennsylvania program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Pennsylvania requested that a required amendment pertaining to regulatory exemptions for coal extraction incidental to the extraction of other minerals be removed.