30 CFR § 881.1 - Purpose and scope.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t30/s881.1"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "30 CFR § 881.1 - Purpose and scope."
title_number: 30
title_name: "Mineral Resources"
section_number: "881.1"
section_name: "Purpose and scope."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "R"
subchapter_name: "ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION"
part_number: "881"
part_name: "SUBSIDENCE AND STRIP MINE REHABILITATION, APPALACHIA"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Sec. 205, 79 Stat. 13 (40 U.S.C. App. 205), and Pub. L. 95-87, 30 U.S.C. 1201"
regulatory_source: "48 FR 37379, Aug. 18, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "881"
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# 881.1 Purpose and scope.

The regulations in this part provide for contributions by the Secretary with respect to projects in the Appalachian Region for the sealing and filling of voids in abandoned coal mines or for the reclamation and rehabilitation of existing strip and surface mine areas under the authority of subsection (a)(1) of section 205 of the Appalachian Region Development Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89-4, 79 Stat. 5)