30 CFR § 880.5 - Definitions.

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title: "30 CFR § 880.5 - Definitions."
title_number: 30
title_name: "Mineral Resources"
section_number: "880.5"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "R"
subchapter_name: "ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION"
part_number: "880"
part_name: "MINE FIRE CONTROL"
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last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "30 U.S.C. 1201"
regulatory_source: "48 FR 37378, Aug. 18, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
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# 880.5 Definitions.

As used in the regulations in this part and in cooperative agreements, entered into pursuant to the regulations in this part:

(a) *Government* means the United States of America;

(b) *Commission* means the Appalachian Regional Development Commission established by section 101 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965;

(c) *Local authorities* means the State or local governmental bodies organized and existing under the authority of State laws, including, but not limited to, a county, city, township, town, or borough;

(d) *Approved abandoned mine reclamation program* means a program meeting the requirements defined in section 405 of PL 95-87, as amended;

(e) *Operating coal mine* means a coal mine for which the regulatory authority has not terminated its jurisdiction as set out under 30 CFR 700.11(d)(1);

(f) *Inactive coal mine* means a coal mine for which the regulatory authority has terminated its jurisdiction as set out under 30 CFR 700.11(d)(1);

(g) *Project* means a project whose purpose is to control or extinguish fires in coal formations.

(h) *Reclamation plan* or *State reclamation plan* means a plan that a State or Indian tribe submitted and that we approved under section 405 of SMCRA and part 884 of this chapter.

[48 FR 37378, Aug. 18, 1983. Redesignated and amended at 59 FR 52377, Oct. 17, 1994; 73 FR 67642, Nov. 14, 2008]