Zasoby i środowisko · 27.09.1994

Oklahoma Regulatory Program

OSM is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma regulatory program (hereinafter, the ``Oklahoma program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). The proposed amendment consists of recodification of Oklahoma's coal mining rules and revisions to the rules pertaining to reclamation plan requirements for ponds, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments; road systems; subsidence control plans; transportation facilities; requirements for releasing performance bonds; hydrologic balance requirements for siltation structures; revegetation standards for success; subsidence control; soil removal requirements for prime farmland; soil stockpiling requirements for prime farmland; and soil replacement requirements for prime farmland. The amendment is intended to revise the Oklahoma program to be consistent with the corresponding Federal regulations.