36328 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 111 / Thursday, June 8, 2000 / Rules and Regulations

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

30 CFR Part 250

RIN 1010–AC32

Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in

the Outer Continental Shelf—Postlease

Operations Safety, Correction

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service

(MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Correction to final regulations.

SUMMARY: This document makes a

correction to the final rule titled

‘‘Postlease Operations Safety’’ that was

published Tuesday, December 28, 1999

(64 FR 72756). We are correcting a

citation error in the table of Documents

Incorporated by Reference.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 27, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alexis London, Rules Processing Team,

Engineering and Operations Division,

(703) 787–1600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The final regulations that are the

subject of these corrections supersede

30 CFR 250, subpart A, General,

regulations on the effective date and

affect all operators and lessees on the

Outer Continental Shelf.

The published final regulations

contained a complete listing of all of the

documents MMS has incorporated by

reference in the 30 CFR part 250

regulations. The rulemaking also

included revisions and reaffirmations of

several documents. The table of

documents incorporated by reference in

§ 250.198(e) of the published final rule

contained an error, which we are

correcting.

Need for Correction

As published, the final regulations

contain an error which may prove to be

misleading and is in need of

clarification.

Correction of Publication

Accordingly, the publication on

December 28, 1999, of the final

regulations, which were the subject of

FR Doc. 99–31869, is corrected as

follows:

§ 250.198 [Corrected]

On page 72792, in the table in

§ 250.198(e), the entry for API RP 14H,

Recommended Practice for the

Installation, Maintenance and Repair of

Surface Safety Valves and Underwater

Safety Valves Offshore, is corrected to

read as follows:

§ 250.198 Documents incorporated by

reference.

* * * * *

(e) * * *

Title of document Incorporated by reference at

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API RP 14H, Recommended Practice for the Installation, Maintenance and Repair of Surface Safety

Valves and Underwater Safety Valves Offshore Fourth Edition, July 1, 1994, API Stock No. G14H04.

§ 250.802(d); 250.804(a)(4)

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Dated: May 23, 2000.

John V. Mirabella,

Acting Chief, Engineering and Operations

Division.

[FR Doc. 00–13868 Filed 6–7–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

30 CFR Part 901

[SPATS No. AL–070–FOR]

Alabama Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM),

Interior.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: OSM is approving an

amendment to the Alabama regulatory

program (Alabama program) under the

Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA).

Alabama proposed revisions to the

Alabama Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act (ASMCRA) concerning

the repair or compensation for material

damage to any occupied residential

dwelling and related structures or any

noncommercial building. The proposed

revisions also concern the replacement

of contaminated, diminished, or

interrupted drinking, domestic or

residential water supplies. The damage

to the protected structures or water

supplies has to have been caused by

subsidence resulting from underground

coal mining operations. Alabama

proposed to revise its program at its

own initiative.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Arthur W. Abbs, Director, Birmingham

Field Office, Office of Surface Mining,

135 Gemini Circle, Suite 215,

Homewood, Alabama 35209. Telephone:

(205) 290–7282. Internet:

aabbs@balgw.osmre.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background on the Alabama Program

II. Submission of the Amendment

III. Director’s Findings

IV. Summary and Disposition of Comments

V. Director’s Decision

VI. Procedural Determinations

I. Background on the Alabama Program

On May 20, 1982, the Secretary of the

Interior conditionally approved the

Alabama program. You can find

background information on the Alabama

program, including the Secretary’s

findings, the disposition of comments,

and the conditions of approval in the

May 20, 1982, Federal Register (47 FR

22062). You can find later actions

concerning the Alabama program and

previous amendments at 30 CFR 901.15,

901.16, and 901.17.

II. Submission of the Amendment

By letter dated August 17, 1999

(Administrative Record No. AL–0589),

Alabama submitted an amendment to its

approved permanent regulatory program

according to the Federal regulations at

30 CFR 732.17(b). Alabama sent the

amendment at its own initiative.

We announced the proposed

rulemaking in the September 7, 1999,

Federal Register (64 FR 48573). In the

same document, we opened the public

comment period and provided an

opportunity for a public hearing or

meeting on the adequacy of the

amendment. The public comment

period closed on October 7, 1999. We

held a public hearing in Birmingham,

Alabama, on October 4, 1999. We

reopened the public comment period in

the October 15, 1999, Federal Register

(64 FR 55878) in order to allow the