Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions: Kentucky,

[Federal Register: January 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 19)]

[Proposed Rules]

[Page 4604]

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Proposed Rules Federal Register

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

30 CFR Part 917

[KY-219-FOR]

Kentucky Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal.

SUMMARY: OSM is withdrawing the notice of a proposed amendment to the Kentucky regulatory program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) that was published on Wednesday, January 6, 1999 (64 FR 816, FR Doc. 99-190). The proposed notice was inadvertently published by OSM and incorrectly announces amendments to the Kentucky program that the State has not made. The notice relates to silviculture or managed woodland, and fish and wildlife, postmining land uses on mountaintop removal mining operations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William J. Kovacic, Director, Lexington Field Office, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 2675 Regency Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40503. Telephone: (606) 233-2494.

Background

By letter dated December 3, 1998 (Administrative Record No. KY- 1445), Kentucky requested that OSM review some language that the State is considering as a proposed program amendment. The State had intended that if OSM finds the language to be acceptable, the State would amend the Kentucky program and submit the amendments to OSM for publication in the Federal Register as a proposed amendment. OSM inadvertently published the language as if it were an actual amendment to the Kentucky program. Therefore, the proposed program amendment published in the Federal Register dated January 6, 1999 (64 FR 816, FR Doc. 99- 190), relating to silviculture or managed woodland, and fish and wildlife, postmining land uses on mountaintop removal mining operations, is withdrawn and Part 917 Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations is not amended.

Dated: January 20, 1999. Tim L. Dieringer, Acting, Regional Director, Appalachian Regional Coordinating Center.

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