Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 9.11.1995

Alaska Regulatory Program

OSM is announcing receipt of revisions and additional explanatory information pertaining to a previously proposed amendment to the Alaska regulatory program (hereinafter, the ``Alaska program'' under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). The revisions and additional explanatory information for Alaska's proposed rules pertain to permit fees, geology description, return of excess spoil to underground workings, self-bonding, disposal of coal mine waste, protection of fish and wildlife, blending of spoil into surrounding terrain, and road construction. Additionally, Alaska is withdrawing its proposal to revise Alaska rules pertaining to compliance information in permit applications, administrative processing of permit applications, Commissioner's findings, improvidently issued permits, permit revisions and renewals, permit conditions, impoundment design and construction, standards for revegetation success, inspections, cessation orders, exemption for coal extraction incidental to the extraction of other minerals, and definitions. The amendment is intended to revise the Alaska program to be consistent with the corresponding Federal regulations, clarify ambiguit