[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 19 (Friday, January 29, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 4604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2217]


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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.

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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operations, is withdrawn and Part 917 Title 30 of the Code of Federal 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.
[FR Doc. 99-2217 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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