30 CFR § 736.15 - Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t30/s736.15"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "30 CFR § 736.15 - Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program."
title_number: 30
title_name: "Mineral Resources"
section_number: "736.15"
section_name: "Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "PERMANENT REGULATORY PROGRAMS FOR NON-FEDERAL AND NON-INDIAN LANDS"
part_number: "736"
part_name: "FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR A STATE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "30 U.S.C. 1201 , as amended; and Pub. L. 100-34."
regulatory_source: "44 FR 15329, Mar. 13, 1979, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "736"
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# 736.15 Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program.
(a) The Director shall implement, administer, enforce, and maintain a Federal program or any revision thereto not later than 30 days after a Federal program is promulgated or revised.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section, the Director shall implement the procedures and criteria of a Federal program for a State for designating lands unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining one year after a Federal program is made effective for a State.
(2) When a complete or partial Federal program is promulgated because of a State's failure to implement, maintain, or enforce adequately all or a part of its State program, all applicable portions of the Federal program for the State under this part shall be effective immediately upon implementation of the Federal program.
[48 FR 41348, Sept. 14, 1983]