[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 3648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1038]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Advisory 
Board; Notice of Establishment

    This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. (1988). Following 
consultation with the General Services Administration and the Office of 
Management and Budget, notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the 
Interior is administratively establishing an advisory board to be known 
as the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement General 
Advisory Board.
    The purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide a forum to discuss 
a variety of regulatory and reclamation issues of concern to the 
public, primacy States which regulate surface coal mining, Tribes, 
environmental groups, coal mine region residents, industry, the 
Congress, and other State and Federal agencies.
    The Secretary of the Interior will appoint 20-25 members to the 
Advisory Board to represent a cross-section of those who are interested 
in and directly affected by regulatory and reclamation activities. OSM 
will carefully monitor membership to ensure that there is a balance 
among those interests affected by the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.).

Certification

    I hereby certify that the administrative establishment of the 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Advisory Board is 
necessary and in the public interest in connection with the performance 
of duties imposed on the Department of the Interior by the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.).

    Dated: July 27, 1994.
Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 95-1038 Filed 1-17-95; 8:45 am]
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