[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 211 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60912-60913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23998]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

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Grant Notification for Fiscal Year 2022

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
(OSMRE), are notifying the public that we intend to grant funds to 
eligible applicants for purposes authorized under the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) Title IV Abandoned Mine 
Land (AML) Reclamation Program (30 U.S.C. 1231-1244) and Title V 
Regulatory Program (30 U.S.C. 1251-1279). We will award these grants 
during fiscal year 2022.

DATES: Single points of contact or other interested State, Tribal, or 
local entities may submit written comments regarding AML Reclamation 
Program and Regulatory Program funding until December 3, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Electronic mail: Send your comments to 
[email protected].
     Mail, hand-delivery, or courier: Send your comments to 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Attn: Grants 
Notice, Room 4551, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yetunde Richardson, Office of Surface

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Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW, MS 4551, 
Washington, DC 20240; Telephone (202) 208-2766.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Grant Notification

    We are notifying the public that we intend to grant funds to 
eligible applicants for purposes authorized under SMCRA's Title IV AML 
Reclamation Program and Title V Regulatory Program. We will award these 
grants during fiscal year 2022. Eligible applicants are those States 
and Tribes with an existing AML reclamation program and/or a regulatory 
program approved pursuant to SMCRA, as amended, 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq., 
and, as provided in 30 U.S.C. 1295, those States and Tribes that are 
seeking to develop a regulatory program. Consistent with Executive 
Order 12372, we are providing State and Tribal officials the 
opportunity to review and comment on these proposed Federal financial 
assistance activities. Of the eligible applicants, eighteen States or 
Tribes do not have single points of contact; therefore, we are 
publishing this notice as an alternate means of notification.

Description of the AML Reclamation Program

    SMCRA established the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to receive 
the AML fees that, along with funds from other sources, are used to 
finance reclamation of AML coal mine sites and for certain other 
purposes. Title IV of SMCRA authorizes OSMRE to provide grants, funded 
from permanent (mandatory) appropriations, to eligible States and 
Tribes. Recipients use these funds: To reclaim the highest priority AML 
coal mine sites that were abandoned prior to the enactment of SMCRA in 
1977; to reclaim eligible non-coal sites; for projects that address the 
impacts of mineral development; and for non-reclamation projects.

Description of the Regulatory Program

    Title V of SMCRA authorizes OSMRE to provide grants to States and 
Tribes to develop, administer, and enforce State and Tribal regulatory 
programs that address, among other things, the disturbances from coal 
mining operations. Additionally, upon our approval of a State or Tribal 
regulatory program, Title V authorizes that State or Tribe to assume 
regulatory primacy and act as the regulatory authority within the State 
or Tribe, and to administer and enforce its approved regulatory 
program. These provisions of SMCRA are implemented by our regulations 
at Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter VII.

Glenda H. Owens,
Deputy Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 2021-23998 Filed 11-3-21; 8:45 am]
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