Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement December 16, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, are notifying the public that we intend to grant funds to eligible applicants for purposes authorized under the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Program. Additionally we are notifying the public that we intend to grant funds to eligible applicants for regulating coal mining within their jurisdictional borders. We will award these grants after October 1, 2011, because our award authority commences at the beginning of the fiscal year.