30 U.S.C. § 1244 — Remining incentives

(a) After allowing public comment, the Secretary may issue regulations describing when fund money may provide incentives for remining eligible land under section 1234. The incentives must use fund money in a way that produces more reclamation of the eligible land than would occur without them. (b) The regulations must say that incentives may be used only when the Secretary, with the agreement of the State regulatory authority mentioned in subchapter V, decides that the eligible land probably would not be remined and reclaimed without them. (c)(1) Possible incentives include a rebate or waiver of reclamation fees required by section 1232(a), and using fund money to provide financial assurance for remining instead of all or part of the performance bonds required by section 1259. (2)(A) A fee rebate or waiver may be used only for operations that remove or reprocess abandoned coal-mine waste, or conduct remining that meets the priorities in section 1233(a)(1) or (2). (B) The rebate or waiver may not exceed the estimated cost of reclaiming the eligible land under this section.