30 U.S.C. § 1279 — Anthracite coal mines
submitted 49 years ago by Pub. L. 95-87 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 167 words · no verdicts yet
This section authorizes and requires separate regulations for anthracite coal surface mines that are regulated under State environmental standards. It adopts specified State provisions while keeping other chapter requirements in effect.
(a) The Secretary may and must issue separate regulations according to time schedules established in this chapter for anthracite coal surface mines, if such mines are regulated by environmental protection standards of the State in which they are located. Such alternative regulations must adopt, in each instance, the environmental protection provisions of the State regulatory program in existence on August 3, 1977, instead of sections 1265 and 1266 of this title. Provisions of sections 1259 and 1269 of this title are applicable except for specified bond limits and period of revegetation responsibility. All other provisions of this chapter apply and the regulation issued by the Secretary of Interior for each State anthracite regulatory program must so reflect: Provided, however, That upon amendment of a State’s regulatory program for anthracite mining or regulations under it in force instead of the above-cited sections of this chapter, the Secretary must issue such additional regulations as necessary to meet the purposes of this chapter.
(b) Omitted.
The Secretary is authorized to and shall issue separate regulations according to time schedules established in this chapter for anthracite coal surface mines, if such mines are regulated by environmental protection standards of the State in which they are located. Such alternative regulations shall adopt, in each instance, the environmental protection provisions of the State regulatory program in existence on August 3, 1977, in lieu of sections 1265 and 1266 of this title. Provisions of sections 1259 and 1269 of this title are applicable except for specified bond limits and period of revegetation responsibility. All other provisions of this chapter apply and the regulation issued by the Secretary of Interior for each State anthracite regulatory program shall so reflect: Provided, however, That upon amendment of a State’s regulatory program for anthracite mining or regulations thereunder in force in lieu of the above-cited sections of this chapter, the Secretary shall issue such additional regulations as necessary to meet the purposes of this chapter.
Omitted.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 95–87, title V, § 529, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 514.)
- 1977Enacted · Pub. L. 95-87 · 91 Stat. 514
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