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Office of Surface Mining - Federal Managed Regulation of Surface Coal Mining and Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation

This program is for those States and Tribes that have not assumed program "primacy." The program protects the public from the adverse effects of surface coal mining activities and reclaims and restores land and water degraded by abandoned coal mining activities conducted pre-1977.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program meets national contemporary coal mining needs. This is accomplished because this program collaborates with coal mining primacy states and tribes, and coal mining operators in the conducting or regulating current mining activites as well as the reclamation and restoration of land and water degraded by pre-1977 mining activities.
  • The program established annual and long-term performance measures that are similar to those developed by coal mining primacy states and tribes. This ensures that the Bureau runs it program in a similar manner as the federally funded program to primacy states and tribes.
  • The efficiency measure is specific to the Federal program operations and measures how quickly the Bureau can respond to emergency situations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing to implement the established annual and long-term measures for the Federal regulatory and reclamation programs.
  • Implementing newly developed efficiency measures to ensure that targets are met and continue to be ambitious.

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