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30 CFR 926.12: State program provisions and amendments not approved.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 30—Mineral Resources
- CHAPTER VII—OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
- SUBCHAPTER T—PROGRAMS FOR THE CONDUCT OF SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS WITHIN EACH STATE
- PART 926—MONTANA
(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.
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