30 CFR § 926.12 - State program provisions and amendments not approved.

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title: "30 CFR § 926.12 - State program provisions and amendments not approved."
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title_name: "Mineral Resources"
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section_name: "State program provisions and amendments not approved."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
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# 926.12 State program provisions and amendments not approved.

(a) The amendment submitted by letter dated June 7, 2011, Docket ID No. OSM-2011-0011, which proposed changes to the Montana approved program as a result of the Montana Legislature's 2011 passage of a Senate Bill (SB 297) relating to coal beneficiation is not approved.

(b) [Reserved]

(c) The following portions of the amendment submitted by letter dated June 1, 2023, Administrative Record No. MT-042-01, which proposed changes to the Montana approved program as a result of the Montana Legislature's 2023 passage of a House Bill (HB 576) are not approved: MCA 82-4-203(32)(a) to the extent that it changed the prior definition of material damage as it relates to the hydrologic balance; MCA 82-4-203(32)(c) definition of material damage as it relates to subsidence; MCA 82-4-222(1)(m) hydrologic information requirements.

[78 FR 10512, Feb. 14, 2013, as amended at 90 FR 3687, Jan. 15, 2025]