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A Proposed Rule by the Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office on 10/23/2000
Written comments must be received by 4 p.m., m.d.t., November 22, 2000. If requested, a public hearing on the proposed amendment will be held on November 17, 2000. Requests to present oral testimony at the hearing must be received by 4 p.m., m.d.t., on November 7, 2000.
SPATS No. NM-041-FOR
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/00-27163 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/00-27163
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the New Mexico Start Printed Page 63224regulatory program (hereinafter, the “New Mexico program”) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation act of 1977 (SMCRA). The proposed amendment consists of recodification of the New Mexico Surface Coal Mining Regulations. The amendment is intended to revise the New Mexico program to improve operational efficiency and assure that the New Mexico Surface Coal Mining Regulations are codified according to the New Mexico administrative procedures.
You should mail or hand deliver written comments and requests to speak at the hearing to Willis L. Gainer at the address listed below.
Willis L. Gainer, Director, Albuquerque Field Office, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 505 Marquette Avenue, NW., Suite 1200, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Mining and Minerals Division, New Mexico Energy & Minerals Department, 2040 South Pacheco Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, Telephone: (505) 827-5970
By letter dated September 22, 2000 (administrative record No. NM-840), New Mexico submitted a proposed amendment to its program pursuant to SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.). New Mexico submitted the proposed amendment at its own initiative. New Mexico proposes to recodify the New Mexico Surface Coal Mining Regulations.
Specifically, New Mexico proposes to recodify its regulations from Title 19 (Natural Resources and Wildlife), Chapter 8 (Coal Mining), Part 2 (Coal Surface Mining) of the New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC), Subparts 1 through 34, to Title 19, Chapter 8 of NMAC, Parts 1 through 34, or 19.8 NMAC Parts 1-34. No substantive changes to the text of the New Mexico regulations that are counterpart to SMCRA are proposed.
The only significant text revisions New Mexico proposes are at 19.8.1.5. and 19.8.1.108. New Mexico proposes to revise Section 5 to clarify the effective date of the regulations as follows:
19.8.1.5 Effective Date: November 29, 1997, unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.
New Mexico proposes to revise Section 108 to reinsert previously approved language that was unintentionally removed when New Mexico recodified it regulations in 1997. New Mexico proposes to reinsert the following:
19.8.1.108 Suspension of Rules or Regulations (None) Section 1-11 CSMC Rule 80-1, as adopted May 15, 1980, is hereby repealed, provided, however, that such repeal shall not be deemed to affect the authority of persons to engage in or carry out any surface coal mining operations if he has a permit under Laws 1972, Chapter 68, and such permit has not expired pursuant to the Act or 19.8 NMAC Parts 1-34, so long as he complies with the provisions of the Act, the permit and 19.8 NMAC Parts 1-34.
Please submit Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and nay form of encryption. Please also include “Attn: SPATS No. NM-041-FOR” and your name and return address in your Internet message. If you do not receive a confirmation that we have received your Internet message, contact the Albuquerque Field Office at (505) 248-5096.
Persons wishing to testify at the public hearing should contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT by 4:00 p.m., m.d.t., on November 7, 2000. Any disabled individual who has need for a special accommodation to attend a public hearing should contact the individual listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The location and time of the hearing will be arranged with those persons requesting the hearing. If no one requests an opportunity to testify at the public hearing, the hearing will not be held.
To assist the transcriber and ensure an accurate record, we request, if possible, that each person who testifies at a public hearing provide us with a written copy of his or her testimony. The public hearing will continue on the specified date until all persons scheduled to speak have been heard. If you are in the audience and have not been scheduled to speak and wish to do so, you will be allowed to speak after those who have been scheduled. We will end the hearing after all persons scheduled to Start Printed Page 63225speak and persons present in the audience who wish to speak have been heard.
If only one person requests an opportunity to testify at a hearing, a public meeting, rather than a public hearing, may be held. Persons wishing to meet the OSM representatives to discuss the proposed amendment may request a meeting by contacting the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All such meetings will be open to the public and, if possible, notices of meetings will be posted at the locations listed under ADDRESSES. A written summary of each meeting will be made a part of the administrative record.
No environmental impact statement is required for this rule since section 702(d) of SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1292(d)) provides that agency decisions on proposed State regulatory program provisions do not constitute major Federal actions within the meaning of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4332 (2)(C)).
[FR Doc. 00-27163 Filed 10-20-00; 8:45 am]