Zasoby i środowisko · 10/1/2004

Colorado Regulatory Program

We are announcing receipt of additional revisions pertaining to a previously proposed amendment to the Colorado regulatory program (hereinafter, the "Colorado program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The additional revisions were submitted by Colorado July 23, 2003. Colorado proposes revisions to require a weed management plan as part of the permit application, and as part of the cropland revegetation success criteria, to consider crop production for two of the last four years of the liability period, but not consider crop production prior to year nine of the liability period and with respect to annual grain crops for which the cropping cycle may incorporate a summer fallow year, two of the last four cropping years will be considered.