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Following is an index to the regulations: 30 CFR Parts 700-887 (Subchapters A - S). A "linked" index to these regulations by section and an electronic version of the regulations is also available..
A
ABANDONED MINE LAND
30 CFR 
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.4  Responsibility.
   Part 756    Indian Tribe Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Programs
   Part 870    Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund   Fee Collection and Coal
               Production Reporting
   Part 872    Abandoned Mine Reclamation Funds
   Part 873    Future Reclamation Set   Aside Program
   Part 874    General Reclamation Requirements
   Part 875    Noncoal Reclamation
   Part 876    Acid Mine Drainage Treatment and Abatement Program
   Part 877    Rights of Entry
   Part 879    Acquisition, Management, and Disposition of Lands and Water
   Part 880    Mine Fire Control
   Part 881    Subsidence and Strip Mine Rehabilitation, Appalachia
   Part 882    Reclamation on Private Land
   Part 884    State Reclamation Plans
   Part 886    State and Tribal Reclamation Grants
   Part 887    Subsidence Insurance Program Grants

ABATEMENT
30 CFR 
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 722.11 Imminent dangers and harms.  
   Sec. 722.12 Non-imminent dangers or harms.  
   Sec. 722.16 Pattern of violations.  
   Sec. 723.13 Point system for penalties.  
   Sec. 723.15 Assessment of separate violations for each day.  
   Sec. 723.17 Procedures for assessment of civil penalties.
   Sec. 723.18 Procedures for assessment conference.  
   Sec. 724.14 Amount of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 724.17 Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 724.18 Payment of penalty.  
   Sec. 756.17 Approval of the Hopi Tribe's Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan Amendments.  
   Sec. 773.8  General provisions for review of permit application information and entry of information into
               AVS.  
   Sec. 773.14 Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.  
   Sec. 773.23 Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.  
   Sec. 774.11 Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
               control, and violation information.  
   Sec. 778.14 Providing violation information.  
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities
               and structures.  
   Sec. 816.79 Protection of underground mining.  
   Sec. 840.11 Inspections by State regulatory authority.  
   Sec. 842.11 Federal inspections and monitoring.  
   Sec. 843.11 Cessation orders.  
   Sec. 843.12 Notices of violation.  
   Sec. 843.13 Suspension or revocation of permits: Pattern of violations.  
   Sec. 843.21 Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.  
   Sec. 843.22 Enforcement actions at abandoned sites.  
   Sec. 845.13 Point system for penalties.  
   Sec. 845.15 Assessment of separate violations for each day.  
   Sec. 845.17 Procedures for assessment of civil penalties.  
   Sec. 845.18 Procedures for assessment conference.  
   Sec. 846.14 Amount of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 846.17 Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 846.18 Payment of penalty.  
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 873.12 Future set-aside program criteria.  
   Sec. 874.12 Eligible coal lands and water.
   Sec. 876.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 876.10 Information collection.  
   Sec. 876.12 Eligibility.  
   Sec. 876.13 Plan content.  
   Sec. 876.14 Plan approval.  
   Sec. 879.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 879.11 Land eligible for acquisition.

ACID OR TOXIC
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 715.14 Backfilling and grading.  
   Sec. 715.15 Disposal of excess spoil.  
   Sec. 715.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.  
   Sec. 715.20 Revegetation.  
   Sec. 717.14 Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.  
   Sec. 717.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.20 Topsoil handling and revegetation.  
   Sec. 764.25 Regulatory authority responsibility for implementation.  
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.  
   Sec. 780.18 Reclamation plan: General requirements.  
   Sec. 780.21 Hydrologic information.  
   Sec. 780.22 Geologic information.  
   Sec. 784.13 Reclamation plan: General requirements
   Sec. 784.14 Hydrologic information.  
   Sec. 784.22 Geologic information.  
   Sec. 785.22 In situ processing activities.  
   Sec. 815.15 Performance standards for coal exploration.
   Sec. 816.13 Casing and sealing of drilled holes: General requirements.  
   Sec. 816.15 Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Permanent.
   Sec. 816.41 Hydrologic-balance protection.  
   Sec. 816.46 Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.  
   Sec. 816.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.84 Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 816.97 Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.  
   Sec. 816.102  Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 817.13 Casing and sealing of exposed underground openings: General requirements.  
   Sec. 817.15 Casing and sealing of underground openings: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.41 Hydrologic-balance protection.  
   Sec. 817.46 Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.  
   Sec. 817.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.84 Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 817.97 Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.  
   Sec. 817.102  Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 819.15 Auger mining: Hydrologic balance.  
   Sec. 824.11 Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.  
   Sec. 828.11 In situ processing: Performance standards.  
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 873.12 Future set-aside program criteria.  
   Sec. 874.17 AML agency procedures for reclamation projects receiving less than 50 percent government
      funding.  
   Sec. 876.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 876.10 Information collection.  
   Sec. 876.12 Eligibility.  
   Sec. 876.13 Plan content.  
   Sec. 876.14 Plan approval.  

"ADJACENT LAND"
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.13 Postmining use of land.  
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.  
   Sec. 761.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 785.14 Mountaintop removal mining.  
   Sec. 795.7  Filing for assistance.  

"ADVERSE EFFECTS"
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.13 Postmining use of land.  
   Sec. 715.14 Backfilling and grading.  
   Sec. 715.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.  
   Sec. 715.18 Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.  
   Sec. 717.14 Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.  
   Sec. 717.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.  
   Sec. 715.18 Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.  
   Sec. 780.13 Operation plan: Blasting.  
   Sec. 816.67 Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.  
   Sec. 816.68 Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.  
   Sec. 816.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.81 Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.102  Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 816.150  Roads: general.  
   Sec. 817.67 Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.  
   Sec. 817.68 Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.  
   Sec. 817.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.81 Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.99 Slides and other damage.  
   Sec. 817.102  Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 817.150  Roads: general.  
   Sec. 827.12 Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.  
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 874.14 Utilities and other facilities.  
   Sec. 875.12 Eligible lands and water prior to certification.  
   Sec. 875.15 Reclamation priorities for noncoal program.
   Sec. 877.13 Entry and consent to reclaim.  
   Sec. 877.14 Entry for emergency reclamation.  
   Sec. 879.11 Land eligible for acquisition.  

"ADVERSELY AFFECTED" 
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 702.11  Application requirements and procedures.
   Sec. 702.17  Revocation and enforcement.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 756.14  Approval of amendments to the Navajo Nation's Abandoned Mine Land Plan.
   Sec. 764.13  Petitions.
   Sec. 769.11  Who may submit a petition.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 780.31  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.17  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 842.14  Review of adequacy and completeness of inspections.
   Sec. 842.15  Review of decision not to inspect or enforce.
   Sec. 843.16  Formal review of citations.
   Sec. 845.21  Use of civil penalties for reclamation.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 874.14  Utilities and other facilities.
   Sec. 875.15  Reclamation priorities for noncoal program.
   Sec. 877.13  Entry and consent to reclaim.
   Sec. 879.11  Land eligible for acquisition.
   Sec. 879.12  Procedures for acquisition.

"AFFECTED AREA"
30 CFR 
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 707.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 707.12  Information to be maintained on site.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 716.6  Coal mines in Alaska.
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 721.11  Extent.
   Sec. 736.12  Notice, comment and hearing procedures.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 761.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 764.13  Petitions.
   Sec. 779.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 779.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 783.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 783.19  Vegetation information.
   Sec. 783.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 783.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.19  Underground development waste.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 795.7  Filing for assistance.
   Sec. 810.2  Objective.
   Sec. 816.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.132   Cessation of operations: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 817.13  Casing and sealing of exposed underground openings: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.100   Contemporaneous reclamation.
   Sec. 817.132   Cessation of operations: Permanent.
   Sec. 819.19  Auger mining: Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 824.11  Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.
   Sec. 828.11  In situ processing: Performance standards.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.

AIR   AIR POLLUTION
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.16  Topsoil handling.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.15  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.26  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 816.95  Stabilization of surface areas.
   Sec. 816.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 817.95  Stabilization of surface areas.
   Sec. 817.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.

AIR   AIR QUALITY
30 CFR
   Sec. 716.5  Anthracite coal mines.  
   Sec. 732.13 Decision by the Secretary.  
   Sec. 732.17  State program amendments.  
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.  
   Sec. 750.12  Permit applications.  
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.  
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.  
   Sec. 780.15  Air pollution control plan.  
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.  
   Sec. 784.26  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.  
   Sec. 828.12  In situ processing: Monitoring.  

ALLUVIAL VALLEY FLOOR
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 710.4  Responsibility.  
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.  
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial 
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.  
   Sec. 822.1  Scope.   
   Sec. 822.10  Information collection.  
   Sec. 822.11  Essential hydrologic functions.  
   Sec. 822.12  Protection of agricultural activities.  
   Sec.  822.13   Monitoring.  

ANTHRACITE
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 705.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 706.3  Definitions.  
   Sec. 715.11  General obligations.  
   Sec. 716.1  General obligations.
   Sec. 716.5  Anthracite coal mines.  
   Sec. 785.11  Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.  
   Sec. 800.70  Bonding for anthracite operations in Pennsylvania.  
   Sec. 820.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 820.2  Objective.  
   Sec. 820.11  Performance standards: Anthracite mines in Pennsylvania.  
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 870.13  Fee computations.  
   Sec. 870.18  General rules for calculating excess moisture. 

APPEALS
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.4  Responsibility.  
   Sec. 705.21  Appeals procedures.  
   Sec. 706.21  Appeals procedures.  
   Sec. 710.12  Special exemption for small operators.  
   Sec. 722.12  Non-imminent dangers or harms.  
   Sec. 723.13  Point system for penalties.  
   Sec. 723.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.  
   Sec. 723.19  Request for hearing.  
   Sec. 724.17  Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 724.18  Payment of penalty.  
   Sec. 725.18  Grant reduction and termination.  
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.  
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.  
   Sec. 750.18  Inspection and enforcement.  
   Sec. 761.16  Submission and processing of requests for valid existing rights determinations.  
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.  
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.  
   Sec. 773.22  Notice requirements for improvidently issued permits.   
   Sec. 773.23  Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.  
   Sec. 773.28  Written agency decision on challenges to ownership or control listings or findings.  
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.  
   Sec. 800.50  Forfeiture of bonds.  
   Sec. 842.15  Review of decision not to inspect or enforce.  
   Sec. 843.12  Notices of violation.  
   Sec. 843.13  Suspension or revocation of permits: Pattern of violations.  
   Sec. 843.21  Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.  
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.   
   Sec. 845.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.  
   Sec. 845.19  Request for hearing.  
   Sec. 846.17  Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.  
   Sec. 846.18  Payment of penalty.  
   Sec. 865.1  Scope.  
   Sec. 865.13  Investigation and conference procedures.  
   Sec. 865.14  Request for hearing.  
   Sec. 865.15  Formal adjudicatory proceedings.  
   Sec. 882.13  Liens.  
   Sec. 886.18  Grant reduction, suspension, and termination.  

APPLICATION   APPLICATION APPROVAL OR DENIAL   or PERMIT APPROVAL OR DENIAL
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 702.11  Application requirements and procedures.
   Sec. 702.15  Conditions of exemption and right of inspection and entry.
   Sec. 710.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 722.12  Non-imminent dangers or harms.
   Sec. 723.16  Waiver of use of formula to determine civil penalty.
   Sec. 725.15  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 735.18  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 746.18  Mining plan modification.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 750.11  Permits.
   Sec. 750.12  Permit applications.
   Sec. 761.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 761.13  Procedures for compatibility findings for surface coal mining operations on Federal lands in
     national forests.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.14  Commercial use or sale
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.
   Sec. 774.13  Permit revisions.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 777.14  Maps and plans: General requirements.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.200   Interpretive rules related to General Performance Standards.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial 
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.21  Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.
   Sec. 795.8  Application approval and notice.
   Sec. 800.11  Requirement to file a bond.
   Sec. 800.14  Determination of bond amount.
   Sec. 800.15  Adjustment of amount.
   Sec. 800.16  General terms and conditions of bond.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.111   Revegetation: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.132   Cessation of operations: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.14  Casing and sealing of underground openings: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.111   Revegetation: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 817.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.132   Cessation of operations: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.200   Interpretative rules related to general performance standards.
   Sec. 822.12  Protection of agricultural activities.
   Sec. 828.11  In situ processing: Performance standards.
   Sec. 840.14  Availability of records.
   Sec. 884.15  State reclamation plan amendments.
   Sec. 886.3  Authority.
   Sec. 886.15  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 886.16  Grant agreements.
  Sec. 887.3  Authority.

APPLICATION   COMPLETENESS OF APPLICATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 702.11  Application requirements and procedures.
   Sec. 722.11  Imminent dangers and harms.
   Sec. 725.15  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 735.18  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 736.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 746.17  Term of approval.
   Sec. 750.12  Permit applications.
   Sec. 750.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 761.17  Regulatory authority obligations at time of permit application review.
   Sec. 764.15  Initial processing, recordkeeping, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 769.14  Initial processing, recording, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.8  General provisions for review of permit application information and entry of information into
    AVS.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.17  Permit term.
   Sec. 779.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 783.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 843.11  Cessation orders.
   Sec. 865.13  Investigation and conference procedures.

APPLICATION   PERMIT APPLICATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability. 
   Sec. 715.15 Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime Farmland. 
   Sec. 722.11 Imminent dangers and harms. 
   Sec. 731.14 Content requirements for program submissions. 
   Sec. 736.25 Permit fees. 
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities. 
   Sec. 740.5  Definitions. 
   Sec. 740.13 Permits.   
   Sec. 745.12  Terms. 
   Sec. 746.13 Decision document and recommendation on mining plan. 
   Sec. 746.17 Term of approval. 
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities. 
   Sec. 750.11 Permits. 
   Sec. 750.12 Permit applications. 
   Sec. 750.25 Permit fees. 
   Sec. 755.12  Terms.
   Sec. 761.5  Definitions. 
   Sec. 761.13 Procedures for compatibility findings for surface coal mining operations on Federal lands in
    national forests.
   Sec. 761.15 Procedures for waiving the prohibition on surface coal mining operations within the buffer zone of
    an occupied dwelling.
   Sec. 761.16 Submission and processing of requests for valid existing rights determinations.
   Sec. 761.17 Regulatory authority obligations at time of permit application review.
   Sec. 764.10 Information collection. 
   Sec. 764.15 Initial processing, recordkeeping, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 764.21 Data base and inventory system requirements
   Sec. 769.14 Initial processing, recording, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 769.17 Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 772.12 Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
    on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.14 Commercial use or sale.
   Sec. 773.3  Information collection. 
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.  
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications. 
   Sec. 773.8  General provisions for review of permit application information and entry of information into
    AVS.
   Sec. 773.13 Unanticipated events or conditions at remining sites.
   Sec. 773.15 Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.17 Permit conditions. 
   Sec. 773.19 Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 773.25 Who may challenge ownership or control listings and findings.
   Sec. 773.26 How to challenge an ownership or control listing or finding.
   Sec. 774.13 Permit revisions. 
   Sec. 774.15 Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17 Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.11 Administrative review.
   Sec. 777.1  Scope.
   Sec. 777.10 Information collection..
   Sec. 777.11 Format and contents.
   Sec. 777.13 Reporting of technical data.
   Sec. 777.14 Maps and plans: General requirements.
   Sec. 777.15 Completeness.
   Sec. 777.17 Permit fees.
   Sec. 778.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 778.8  Information collection.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.10 [This section was redesignated as Sec. 778.8. See 65 FR 79582, 79668, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 778.11 Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information..
   Sec. 778.12 Providing permit history information.
   Sec. 778.13 Providing property interest information.
   Sec. 778.14 Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.15 Right-of-entry information.
   Sec. 778.16 Status of unsuitability claims.
   Sec. 778.17 Permit term.
   Sec. 778.18 Insurance.
   Sec. 778.21 Proof of publication.
   Sec. 778.22 Facilities or structures used in common.
   Sec. 779.1  Scope.
   Sec. 779.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 779.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 779.10 Information collection.
   Sec. 779.11 General requirements.
   Sec. 779.12 General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 779.18 Climatological information.
   Sec. 779.19 Vegetation information.
   Sec. 779.20 [Reserved]
   Sec. 779.21 Soil resources information.
   Sec. 779.24 Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 779.25 Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 780.1  Scope.
   Sec. 780.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 780.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 780.10 Information collection.
  Sec. 780.11   Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.12 Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 780.13 Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 780.14 Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.15 Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 780.16 Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 780.18 Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21 Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 780.22 Geologic information.
   Sec. 780.23 Reclamation plan: Land use information.
   Sec. 780.25 Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 780.27 Reclamation plan: Surface mining near underground mining.
   Sec. 780.29 Diversions.
   Sec. 780.31 Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 780.33 Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 780.35 Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 780.37 Road systems.
   Sec. 780.38 Support facilities.
   Sec. 783.1  Scope.
   Sec. 783.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 783.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 783.10 Information collection.
   Sec. 783.11 General requirements.
   Sec. 783.12 General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 783.18 Climatological information.
   Sec. 783.19 Vegetation information.
   Sec. 783.20 [Reserved]
   Sec. 783.21 Soil resources information.
   Sec. 783.24 Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 783.25 Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.1  Scope.
   Sec. 784.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 784.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 784.10 Information collection.
   Sec. 784.11 Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 784.13 Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14 Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.15 Reclamation plan: Land use Information.
   Sec. 784.16 Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.17 Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.18 Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 784.19 Underground development waste.
   Sec. 784.20 Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 784.21 Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 784.22 Geologic information.
   Sec. 784.23 Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.24 Road systems.
   Sec. 784.25 Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 784.26 Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 784.29 Diversions.
   Sec. 784.30 Support facilities.
   Sec. 784.200   Interpretive rules related to General Performance Standards.
   Sec. 785.11 Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.12 Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.15 Steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.17 Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18 Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
    underground mining activities.
   Sec. 785.19 Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
    valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.20 Augering.
   Sec. 785.21 Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.
   Sec. 785.22 In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 785.25 Lands eligible for remining.
   Sec. 795.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 795.7  Filing for assistance.
   Sec. 795.12 Applicant liability.
   Sec. 800.11 Requirement to file a bond.
   Sec. 800.40 Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 800.60 Terms and conditions for liability insurance.
   Sec. 816.14 Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.61 Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.74 Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.14 Casing and sealing of underground openings: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.41 Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.61 Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.74 Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.200   Interpretative rules related to general performance standards.
   Sec. 822.12 Protection of agricultural activities.
   Sec. 828.11 In situ processing: Performance standards.
   Sec. 843.11 Cessation orders.

APPLICANT
30 CFR 
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11 Applicability.
   Sec. 702.11  Application requirements and procedures.
   Sec. 702.12  Contents of application for exemption.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 725.18  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 736.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 750.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 761.17  Regulatory authority obligations at time of permit application review.
   Sec. 769.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur 
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.9  Review of applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 773.10  Review of permit history.
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.13  Unanticipated events or conditions at remining sites.
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 773.25  Who may challenge ownership or control listings and findings.
   Sec. 774.9  Information collection.
   Sec. 774.11  Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
     control, and violation information.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 777.11  Format and contents.
   Sec. 777.14  Maps and plans: General requirements.
   Sec. 778.8  Information collection.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.11  Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 778.12  Providing permit history information.
   Sec. 778.13  Providing property interest information.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.15  Right-of-entry information.
   Sec. 778.16  Status of unsuitability claims.
   Sec. 778.17  Permit term.
   Sec. 779.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 779.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 779.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 779.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 779.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 780.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 780.13  Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 780.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 780.31  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 780.33  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 780.38  Support facilities.
   Sec. 783.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 783.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 783.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 783.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 783.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.17  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.18  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 784.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 784.30  Support facilities.
   Sec. 785.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices  mining.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining. 
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for 
     steep slope mining. 
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland. 
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities. 
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 795.4  Information collection. 
   Sec. 795.6  Eligibility for assistance. 
   Sec. 795.7  Filing for assistance. 
   Sec. 795.8  Application approval and notice. 
   Sec. 795.9  Program services and data requirements. 
   Sec. 795.12  Applicant liability. 
   Sec. 800.5  Definitions. 
   Sec. 800.11  Requirement to file a bond. 
   Sec. 800.14  Determination of bond amount. 
   Sec. 800.15  Adjustment of amount.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds.
   Sec. 800.23  Self-bonding.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds. 
   Sec. 800.60  Terms and conditions for liability insurance. 
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 843.11  Cessation orders. 
   Sec. 850.14  Examination.
   Sec. 886.18  Grant reduction, suspension, and termination. 

APPROPRIATIONS
30 CFR
   Sec. 845.21 Use of civil penalties for reclamation.  
   Sec. 881.8  Withholding of payments.  
   Sec. 886.14  Annual submission of budget information.   
   Sec. 886.15  Grant application procedures.   

APPROPRIATIONS   BUDGET, CONTINUING OR SUPPLEMENTAL
[No CFR entries for this heading] 

APPROXIMATE ORIGINAL CONTOUR ("AOC")
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.  
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.  
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.  
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.  
   Sec. 716.3  Mountaintop removal.  
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.  
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.  
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.  
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep
   Sec. 815.15  Performance standards for coal exploration.  
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 816.104   Backfilling and grading: Thin overburden.  
   Sec. 816.105   Backfilling and grading: Thick overburden.  
   Sec. 816.133   Postmining land use.  
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.  
   Sec. 817.133   Postmining land use.  
   Sec. 824.11  Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.  

AQUIFER
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.  
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 762.5  Definitions.  
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.  
   Sec. 780.22  Geologic information.  
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.  
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.  
   Sec. 784.22  Geologic information.   
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.  
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.  
   Sec. 828.11  In situ processing: Performance standards.  

AUGER or AUGURING  
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions. 
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 785.20  Augering.
   Sec. 819.1  Scope.
   Sec. 819.11  Auger mining: General. 
   Sec. 819.13  Auger mining: Coal recovery.
   Sec. 819.15  Auger mining: Hydrologic balance.
   Sec. 819.17  Auger mining: Subsidence protection.
   Sec. 819.19  Auger mining: Backfilling and grading. 
   Sec. 819.21  Auger mining: Protection of underground mining.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.

B
BACKFILLING
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.
   Sec. 717.14 Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.15  Disposal of excess rock and earth materials on surface areas.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 816.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 816.100   Contemporaneous reclamation.
   Sec. 816.101   Backfilling and grading: Time and distance requirements.
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.104   Backfilling and grading: Thin overburden.
   Sec. 816.105   Backfilling and grading: Thick overburden.
   Sec. 816.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Sec. 816.107   Backfilling and grading: Steep slopes.
   Sec. 816.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 817.100   Contemporaneous reclamation.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Sec. 817.107   Backfilling and grading: Steep slopes.
   Sec. 817.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 819.19  Auger mining: Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards. 

BENCH
30 CFR
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 716.3  Mountaintop removal.
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 780.35  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 824.11  Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.

BERM
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.

BEST TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 780.16  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.21  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 810.2  Objective.
   Sec. 816.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection. 
   Sec. 816.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 816.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 816.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 816.181   Support facilities.
   Sec. 817.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 817.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 817.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures. 
   Sec. 817.59  Coal recovery.
   Sec. 817.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.181   Support facilities. 

BITUMINOUS
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 705.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 706.3  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 716.1  General obligations.
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 825.1  Scope.
   Sec. 825.2  Special bituminous coal mines in Wyoming.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 870.13  Fee computations.
   Sec. 870.18  General rules for calculating excess moisture. 

BLAST or BLASTER or BLASTING (includes PRE-BLAST SURVEY and BLASTING PLAN)
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 715.16  Topsoil handling.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 750.19  Certification of blasters.
   Sec. 780.13  Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 795.9  Program services and data requirements.
   Sec. 816.13 Casing and sealing of drilled holes: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 816.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.62  Use of explosives: Preblasting survey.
   Sec. 816.64  Use of explosives: Blasting schedule.
   Sec. 816.66  Use of explosives: Blasting signs, warnings, and access control.
   Sec. 816.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 816.68  Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.
   Sec. 817.13  Casing and sealing of exposed underground openings: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 817.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.62  Use of explosives: Preblasting survey.
   Sec. 817.64  Use of explosives: General performance standards.
   Sec. 817.66  Use of explosives: Blasting signs, warnings, and access control.
   Sec. 817.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 817.68  Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.
   Sec. 823.12  Soil removal and stockpiling.
   Sec. 850.1  Scope.
   Sec. 850.5  Definition.
   Sec. 850.10 Information collection.
   Sec. 850.12  Responsibility.
   Sec. 850.13  Training.
   Sec. 850.14  Examination.
   Sec. 850.15  Certification. 

BOND
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 705.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 705.17  What to report.
   Sec. 706.3  Definitions.
   Sec. 706.17  What to report.
   Sec. 707.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 717.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 722.14  Service of notices of violation, cessation orders, and orders to show cause.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.19  Performance standards.
   Sec. 745.13  Authority reserved by the Secretary.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 750.17  Bonding.
   Sec. 755.12  Terms.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.22  Facilities or structures used in common.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 785.11  Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 800.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 800.4  Regulatory authority responsibilities.
   Sec. 800.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 800.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 800.11  Requirement to file a bond.
   Sec. 800.12  Form of the performance bond.
   Sec. 800.13  Period of liability.
   Sec. 800.14  Determination of bond amount
   Sec. 800.15  Adjustment of amount.
   Sec. 800.16  General terms and conditions of bond.
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities and 
     structures.
   Sec. 800.20  Surety bonds.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds.
   Sec. 800.23  Self-bonding.
   Sec. 800.30  Replacement of bonds.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 800.50  Forfeiture of bonds.
   Sec. 800.60  Terms and conditions for liability insurance.
   Sec. 800.70  Bonding for anthracite operations in Pennsylvania.
   Sec. 816.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.56  Postmining rehabilitation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments, and treatment
     facilities.
   Sec. 816.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 816.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 817.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.56  Postmining rehabilitation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments, and treatment 
     facilities.
   Sec. 817.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.116   Revegetation: Standards for success. 
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 822.13  Monitoring.
   Sec. 823.15  Revegetation and restoration of soil productivity.
   Sec. 827.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 840.14  Availability of records.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 842.16  Availability of records.
   Sec. 845.21  Use of civil penalties for reclamation.
   Sec. 847.2  General provisions.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 874.12  Eligible coal lands and water.
   Sec. 874.17  AML agency procedures for reclamation projects receiving less than 50 percent government
     funding.
   Sec. 875.12  Eligible lands and water prior to certification.

BOND   BOND RELEASE
30 CFR 
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 717.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 740.4   Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.19  Performance standards.
   Sec. 745.13  Authority reserved by the Secretary.
   Sec. 755.12  Terms.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 800.4  Regulatory authority responsibilities.
   Sec. 800.15  Adjustment of amount.
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities and 
     structures.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds.
   Sec. 800.30  Replacement of bonds.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 816.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.56  Postmining rehabilitation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments, and treatment
     facilities.
   Sec. 816.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 816.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 817.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.56  Postmining rehabilitation of sedimentation ponds, diversions, impoundments, and treatment 
     facilities.
   Sec. 817.97 Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 822.13  Monitoring.
   Sec. 823.15  Revegetation and restoration of soil productivity.
   Sec. 874.12  Eligible coal lands and water. 

BOND   FORFEITURE OF BONDS
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 755.12  Terms.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 800.4  Regulatory authority responsibilities.
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities and 
     structures.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds.
   Sec. 800.50  Forfeiture of bonds.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 845.21  Use of civil penalties for reclamation.
   Sec. 847.2  General provisions.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 874.12  Eligible coal lands and water.
   Sec. 875.12  Eligible lands and water prior to certification. 

BOND   PERFORMANCE BOND
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.19  Performance standards.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 800.4  Regulatory authority responsibilities.
   Sec. 800.11  Requirement to file a bond.
   Sec. 800.12  Form of the performance bond.
   Sec. 800.13  Period of liability.
   Sec. 800.15  Adjustment of amount.
   Sec. 800.16  General terms and conditions of bond.
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities and 
     structures.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds.
   Sec. 800.30  Replacement of bonds.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 800.50  Forfeiture of bonds.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.97  Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 823.15  Revegetation and restoration of soil productivity.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 847.2  General provisions.
   Sec. 874.17  AML agency procedures for reclamation projects receiving less than 50 percent government
     funding.

BUFFER ZONE
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.12  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 761.14  Procedures for relocating or closing a public road or waiving the prohibition on surface coal
     mining operations within the buffer zone of a public road.
   Sec. 761.15  Procedures for waiving the prohibition on surface coal mining operations within the buffer zone of
     an occupied dwelling.
   Sec. 780.16  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 784.21  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 816.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 816.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 816.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
   Sec. 817.11  Signs and markers.
   Sec. 817.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 817.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
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CASING AND SEALING
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.13  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.14  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.15  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.13  Casing and sealing of exposed underground openings: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.14  Casing and sealing of underground openings: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.15 Casing and sealing of underground openings: Permanent.

CERTIFICATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 705.11  Who shall file.
   Sec. 705.17  What to report.
   Sec. 706.11  Who shall file.
   Sec. 706.17  What to report.
   Sec. 715.16  Topsoil handling.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 745.11  Application and agreement.
   Sec. 750.19  Certification of blasters.
   Sec. 756.14  Approval of amendments to the Navajo Nation's Abandoned Mine Land Plan.
   Sec. 756.17  Approval of the Hopi Tribe's Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan Amendments.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 778.11  Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.68  Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.151   Primary roads.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.68  Use of explosives: Records of blasting operations.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.151   Primary roads.
   Sec. 847.11  Criminal penalties.
   Sec. 850.1  Scope.
   Sec. 850.5  Definition.
   Sec. 850.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 850.12  Responsibility.
   Sec. 850.13  Training.
   Sec. 850.14  Examination.
   Sec. 850.15  Certification.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 875.12  Eligible lands and water prior to certification.
   Sec. 875.13  Certification of completion of coal sites.
   Sec. 875.14  Eligible lands and water subsequent to certification.
   Sec. 875.15  Reclamation priorities for noncoal program.
   Sec. 880.15  Assistance by States or Indian tribes, local authorities, and private parties.
   Sec. 881.4  Application of contribution.

CESSATION OF OPERATIONS
30 CFR 
   Sec. 702.15  Conditions of exemption and right of inspection and entry
   Sec. 816.131    Cessation of operations: Temporary
   Sec. 816.132    Cessation of operations: Permanent
   Sec. 817.131    Cessation of operations: Temporary
   Sec. 817.132    Cessation of operations: Permanent
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards

CESSATION ORDER
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 721.13  Inspections based on citizen requests.
   Sec. 721.14  Failure to give notice and lack of reasonable belief.
   Sec. 722.11  Imminent dangers and harms.
   Sec. 722.12  Non-imminent dangers or harms.
   Sec. 722.13  Failure to abate.
   Sec. 722.14  Service of notices of violation, cessation orders, and orders to show cause.
   Sec. 722.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 722.16  Pattern of violations.
   Sec. 722.17  Inability to comply.
   Sec. 723.1  Scope.
   Sec. 723.11  How assessments are made.
   Sec. 723.12  When penalty will be assessed.
   Sec. 723.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 723.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.
   Sec. 723.16  Waiver of use of formula to determine civil penalty.
   Sec. 723.17  Procedures for assessment of civil penalties.
   Sec. 723.20  Final assessment and payment of penalty.
   Sec. 724.12  When an individual civil penalty may be assessed.
   Sec. 724.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 724.17  Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 774.12  Post-permit issuance information requirements for permittees.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 840.16  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 842.12  Requests for Federal inspections.
   Sec. 843.11  Cessation orders.
   Sec. 843.12  Notices of violation.
   Sec. 843.13  Suspension or revocation of permits: Pattern of violations.
   Sec. 843.14  Service of notices of violation, cessation orders, and show cause orders.
   Sec. 843.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 843.16  Formal review of citations.
   Sec. 843.17  Failure to give notice and lack of information.
   Sec. 843.18  Inability to comply.
   Sec. 843.20  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 843.21  Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.
   Sec. 843.22  Enforcement actions at abandoned sites.
   Sec. 843.25  Energy Policy Act enforcement in States with approved State programs. 
   Sec. 845.1  Scope.
   Sec. 845.11  How assessments are made.
   Sec. 845.12  When penalty will be assessed.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 845.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.
   Sec. 845.16  Waiver of use of formula to determine civil  penalty.
   Sec. 845.17  Procedures for assessment of civil penalties.
   Sec. 845.20  Final assessment and payment of penalty.
   Sec. 846.12  When an individual civil penalty may be assessed.
   Sec. 846.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 846.17  Procedure for assessment of individual civil penalty.

CHANNEL or CHANNELIZATION or STREAM BED
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 716.3  Mountaintop removal.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 780.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 816.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 816.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 816.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
   Sec. 816.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fills/head-of-hollow fills.
   Sec. 816.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 816.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 816.151   Primary roads.
   Sec. 817.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 817.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 817.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 817.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
   Sec. 817.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fill/head-of-hollow fills.
   Sec. 817.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 817.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 817.151   Primary roads.
   Sec. 824.11  Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 870.18  General rules for calculating excess moisture.
   Sec. 870.19  How to calculate excess moisture in HIGH-rank coals.

CITIZEN SUITS
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 700.13  Notice of citizen suits.
   Sec. 721.13  Inspections based on citizen requests.
   Sec. 842.15  Review of decision not to inspect or enforce.

COAL EXPLORATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.2  Objective.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 730.1  Scope.
   Sec. 730.11  Inconsistent and more  stringent State laws and regulations.
   Sec. 730.12  Requirements for regulatory programs in States.
   Sec. 731.12  Submission of State programs.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 732.17  State program amendments.
   Sec. 736.1  Scope.
   Sec. 736.11  General procedural requirements.
   Sec. 736.21  General requirements of a Federal program.
   Sec. 736.22  Contents of a Federal program.
   Sec. 736.23  Federal program effect on State law or regulations.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 740.17  Inspection, enforcement and civil penalties.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 750.15  Coal exploration.
   Sec. 750.18  Inspection and enforcement.
   Sec. 762.15  Exploration on land designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 772.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 772.11  Notice requirements for exploration removing 250 tons of coal or less.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.13  Coal exploration compliance duties.
   Sec. 772.14  Commercial use or sale.
   Sec. 772.15  Public availability of information.
   Sec. 773.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 773.3  Information collection.
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.
   Sec. 773.5  Regulatory coordination with requirements under other laws.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.8  General provisions for review of permit application information and entry of information into
    AVS.
   Sec. 773.9  Review of applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 773.10  Review of permit history.
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.13  Unanticipated events or conditions at remining sites.
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.

   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 773.20  [This section was removed. See 65 FR 79582, 79663, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 773.21  Initial review and finding requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.22  Notice requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.23  Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.24  [This section was removed. See 65 FR 79582, 79663, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 773.25  Who may challenge ownership or control listings and findings.
   Sec. 773.26  How to challenge an ownership or control listing or finding.
   Sec. 773.27  Burden of proof for ownership or control challenges.
   Sec. 773.28  Written agency decision on challenges to ownership or control listings or findings.
   Sec. 774.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 774.9  Information collection.
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.
   Sec. 774.11  Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
     control, and violation  information.
   Sec. 774.12  Post-permit issuance information requirements for permittees.
   Sec. 774.13  Permit revisions.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 777.1  Scope.
   Sec. 777.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 777.11  Format and contents.
   Sec. 777.13  Reporting of technical data.
   Sec. 777.14  Maps and plans: General requirements.
   Sec. 777.15  Completeness.
   Sec. 777.17  Permit fees.
   Sec. 778.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 778.8  Information collection.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.10  [This section was redesignated as  Sec. 778.8. See 65 FR 79582, 79668, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 778.11  Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 778.12  Providing permit history information.
   Sec. 778.13  Providing property interest information.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.15  Right-of-entry information.
   Sec. 778.16  Status of unsuitability claims.
   Sec. 778.17  Permit term.
   Sec. 778.18  Insurance.
   Sec. 778.21  Proof of publication.
   Sec. 778.22  Facilities or structures used in common.
   Sec. 779.1  Scope.
   Sec. 779.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 779.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 779.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 779.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 779.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 779.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 779.19  Vegetation information.
   Sec. 779.20  [Reserved]
   Sec. 779.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 779.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 780.1  Scope.
   Sec. 780.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 780.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 780.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 780.13  Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.15  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 780.16  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 780.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 780.23  Reclamation plan: Land use information.
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 780.27  Reclamation plan: Surface mining near underground mining.
   Sec. 780.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 780.31  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 780.33  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 780.35  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 780.38  Support facilities.
   Sec. 783.1  Scope.
   Sec. 783.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 783.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 783.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 783.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 783.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 783.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 783.19  Vegetation information.
   Sec. 783.20  [Reserved]
   Sec. 783.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 783.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.1  Scope.
   Sec. 784.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 784.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 784.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 784.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.15  Reclamation plan: Land use Information.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.17  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.18  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 784.19  Underground development waste.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 784.21  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 784.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 784.26  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 784.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 784.30  Support facilities.
   Sec. 784.200   Interpretive rules related to General Performance Standards.
   Sec. 785.1  Scope.
   Sec. 785.2  Objective.
   Sec. 785.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 785.11  Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.15  Steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.20  Augering.
   Sec. 785.21  Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 785.25  Lands eligible for remining.
   Sec. 810.1  Scope.
   Sec. 810.2  Objective.
   Sec. 810.3  Authority.
   Sec. 810.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 810.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 815.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 815.2  Permitting information.
   Sec. 815.13  Required documents.
   Sec. 815.15  Performance standards for coal exploration.
   Sec. 840.1  Scope.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 840.12  Right of entry.
   Sec. 840.14  Availability of records.
   Sec. 840.16  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 842.12  Requests for Federal inspections.
   Sec. 842.13  Right of entry.
   Sec. 842.14  Review of adequacy and completeness of inspections.
   Sec. 842.15  Review of decision not to inspect or enforce.
   Sec. 843.1  Scope.
   Sec. 843.11  Cessation orders.
   Sec. 843.12  Notices of violation.
   Sec. 843.14  Service of notices of violation, cessation orders, and show cause orders.
   Sec. 843.20  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.

COAL EXPLORATION PERMIT
30 CFR 
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 772.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 772.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 772.11  Notice requirements for exploration removing 250 tons of coal or less.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.13  Coal exploration compliance duties.
   Sec. 772.14  Commercial use or sale.
   Sec. 772.15  Public availability of information.
   Sec. 773.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 773.3  Information collection.
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.
   Sec. 773.5  Regulatory coordination with requirements under other laws.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.8  General provisions for review of permit application information and entry of information into
    AVS.
   Sec. 773.9  Review of applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 773.10  Review of permit history.
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.13  Unanticipated events or conditions at remining sites.
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.16  Performance bond submittal.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 773.20  [This section was removed. See 65 FR 79582, 79663, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 773.21  Initial review and finding requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.22  Notice requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.23  Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.24  [This section was removed. See 65 FR 79582, 79663, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 773.25  Who may challenge ownership or control listings and findings.
   Sec. 773.26  How to challenge an ownership or control listing or finding.
   Sec. 773.27  Burden of proof for ownership or control challenges.
   Sec. 773.28  Written agency decision on challenges to ownership or control listings or findings.
   Sec. 774.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 774.9  Information collection.
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.
   Sec. 774.11  Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
     control, and violation information.
   Sec. 774.12  Post-permit issuance information requirements for permittees.
   Sec. 774.13  Permit revisions.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 777.1  Scope.
   Sec. 777.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 777.11  Format and contents.
   Sec. 777.13  Reporting of technical data.
   Sec. 777.14  Maps and plans: General requirements.
   Sec. 777.15  Completeness.
   Sec. 777.17  Permit fees.
   Sec. 778.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 778.8  Information collection.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.10  [This section was redesignated as  Sec. 778.8. See 65 FR 79582, 79668, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 778.11  Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 778.12  Providing permit history information.
   Sec. 778.13  Providing property interest information.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.15  Right-of-entry information.
   Sec. 778.16  Status of unsuitability claims.
   Sec. 778.17  Permit term.
   Sec. 778.18  Insurance.
   Sec. 778.21  Proof of publication.
   Sec. 778.22  Facilities or structures used in common.
   Sec. 779.1  Scope.
   Sec. 779.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 779.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 779.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 779.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 779.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 779.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 779.19  Vegetation information.
   Sec. 779.20  [Reserved]
   Sec. 779.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 779.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 780.1  Scope.
   Sec. 780.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 780.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 780.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 780.13  Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.15  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 780.16  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 780.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 780.23  Reclamation plan: Land use information.
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 780.27  Reclamation plan: Surface mining near underground mining.
   Sec. 780.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 780.31  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 780.33  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 780.35  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 780.38  Support facilities.
   Sec. 783.1  Scope.
   Sec. 783.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 783.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 783.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 783.11  General requirements.
   Sec. 783.12  General environmental resources information.
   Sec. 783.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 783.19  Vegetation information.
   Sec. 783.20  [Reserved]
   Sec. 783.21  Soil resources information.
   Sec. 783.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.1  Scope.
   Sec. 784.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 784.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 784.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 784.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.15  Reclamation plan: Land use Information.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.17  Protection of publicly owned parks and historic places.
   Sec. 784.18  Relocation or use of public roads.
   Sec. 784.19  Underground development waste.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 784.21  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 784.22  Geologic information.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 784.26  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 784.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 784.30  Support facilities.
   Sec. 784.200   Interpretive rules related to General Performance Standards.
   Sec. 785.1  Scope.
   Sec. 785.2  Objective.
   Sec. 785.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 785.11  Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.15  Steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.20  Augering.
   Sec. 785.21  Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing  activities.
   Sec. 785.25  Lands eligible for remining.
   Sec. 815.2  Permitting information.
   Sec. 843.1  Scope.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties., 937 words

COAL LABORATORY
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 715.20  Revegetation.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 795.3  Definitions.
   Sec. 795.7  Filing for assistance.
   Sec. 795.9  Program services and data requirements.
   Sec. 795.10  Qualified  laboratories.
   Sec. 795.12  Applicant liability.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.200   Interpretative rules related to general performance standards.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.200   Interpretative rules related to general performance standards.
   Sec. 870.13  Fee computations.
   Sec. 870.16  Production records.

COAL PROCESSING
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 722.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 750.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 816.14  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.14  Casing and sealing of underground openings: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 817.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.
   Sec. 843.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 870.18  General rules for calculating excess moisture.
   Sec. 874.12  Eligible coal lands and water.
   Sec. 875.15  Reclamation priorities for noncoal program.

COAL PROCESSING WASTE or MINE PROCESSING WASTE
30 CFR 
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 702.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 722.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.11 Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings.
   Sec. 816.14  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Temporary.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 816.87  Coal mine waste: Burning and burned waste utilization.
   Sec. 816.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.104   Backfilling and grading: Thin overburden.
   Sec. 817.14  Casing and sealing of underground openings: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 817.47  Hydrologic balance: Discharge structures.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 817.87  Coal mine waste: Burning and burned waste utilization.
   Sec. 817.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 823.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.
   Sec. 843.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 874.17  AML agency procedures for reclamation  projects receiving less than 50 percent government
     funding.

COAL RECOVERY
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland. 
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 750.12  Permit applications.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 816.59  Coal recovery. 
   Sec. 817.59  Coal recovery.
   Sec. 819.13  Auger mining: Coal recovery.
   Sec. 824.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.

COAL REFUSE or MINE REFUSE
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 800.17  Bonding requirements for underground coal mines and long-term coal-related surface facilities and
     structures.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 870.12  Reclamation fee.
   Sec. 874.17  AML agency procedures for reclamation projects receiving less than 50 percent government
     funding.
   Sec. 879.11  Land eligible for acquisition.

COMBUSTIBLE, COMBUSTION and related terms
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.

COMMERCIAL
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 702.1  Scope.
   Sec. 702.12  Contents of application for exemption.
   Sec. 702.13  Public availability of information.
   Sec. 702.14  Requirements for exemption.
   Sec. 702.15  Conditions of exemption and right of inspection and entry.
   Sec. 702.16  Stockpiling of minerals.
   Sec. 705.17  What to report.
   Sec. 706.17  What to report.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 716.3  Mountaintop removal.
   Sec. 725.22  Financial management.
   Sec. 772.14  Commercial use or sale.
   Sec. 772.15  Public availability of information.
   Sec. 784.20  Subsidence control plan.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep slope mining.
   Sec. 816.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 816.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 817.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 817.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 822.12  Protection of agricultural activities.
   Sec. 824.11  Mountaintop removal: Performance standards.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 870.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 879.15  Disposition of reclaimed land.
   Sec. 887.5  Definitions.

COMPACT or COMPACTION
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5 Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5 Definitions.
   Sec. 715.14 Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.15 Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.16 Topsoil handling.
   Sec. 715.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 716.7 Prime farmland.
   Sec. 717.14 Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.17 Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 780.18 Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13 Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.22 Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 816.46 Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.74 Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.83 Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.89 Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 816.102 Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.22 Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 817.46 Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 817.71 Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.74 Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.83 Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.89 Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.102 Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 823.14 Soil replacement.

COMPLIANCE
30 CFR 
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 702.14  Requirements for exemption.
   Sec. 702.17  Revocation and enforcement.
   Sec. 705.1  Purpose.
   Sec. 705.4   Responsibility
   Sec. 705.6   Penalties.
   Sec. 705.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 705.19  Resolving prohibited interests.
   Sec. 706.4  Authority.
   Sec. 706.5  Responsibility.
   Sec. 706.6  Penalties.
   Sec. 706.19  Resolving prohibited interests.
   Sec. 710.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 710.12  Special exemption for small operators.
   Sec. 715.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 715.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec.  715.15   Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 715.20  Revegetation.
   Sec. 716.1  General obligations.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 716.3  Mountaintop removal.
   Sec. 716.6  Coal mines in Alaska.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 721.11  Extent.
   Sec. 722.16  Pattern of violations.
   Sec. 722.17  Inability to comply.
   Sec. 723.2  Objective.
   Sec. 723.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 723.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.
   Sec. 724.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 724.18  Payment of penalty.
   Sec. 725.12  Coverage of grants.
   Sec. 725.18  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 725.19  Audit.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 732.17  State program amendments.
   Sec. 733.12  Procedures for substituting Federal enforcement of State programs or withdrawing approval of
     State programs.
   Sec. 735.12  Eligibility for administration and enforcement grants.
   Sec. 735.16  Special provisions for States with cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 735.22  Audit.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.17  Inspection, enforcement and civil penalties.
   Sec. 745.12  Terms.
   Sec. 745.13  Authority reserved by the Secretary
   Sec. 745.15  Termination
   Sec. 746.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 746.13  Decision document and recommendation on mining plan.
   Sec. 750.6  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 750.11  Permits.
   Sec. 750.12  Permit applications.
   Sec. 750.19  Certification of blasters.
   Sec. 761.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 761.11  Areas where surface coal mining operations are prohibited or limited.
   Sec. 764.15  Initial processing, recordkeeping, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 764.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 769.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 772.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 772.13  Coal exploration compliance duties.
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued permits.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.17  Permit conditions.
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.
   Sec. 774.11  Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
     control and violation information.
   Sec. 774.13  Permit revisions.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 778.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 778.8  Information collection.
   Sec. 778.9  Certifying and updating existing permit application information.
   Sec. 778.10  [This section was redesignated as  Sec. 778.8. See 65 FR 79582, 79668, Dec. 19, 2000.]
   Sec. 778.11  Providing applicant, operator, and ownership and control information.
   Sec. 778.12  Providing permit history information.
   Sec. 778.13  Providing property interest information.
   Sec. 778.14  Providing violation information.
   Sec. 778.15  Right-of-entry information.
   Sec. 778.16  Status of unsuitability claims.
   Sec. 778.17  Permit term.
   Sec. 778.18  Insurance.
   Sec. 778.21  Proof of publication.
   Sec. 778.22  Facilities or structures used in common.
   Sec. 779.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 779.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 780.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 780.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 780.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 780.13  Operation plan: Blasting.
   Sec. 780.15  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 780.16  Fish and wildlife information
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements..
   Sec. 780.25  Reclamation plan: Situation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 780.27  Reclamation plan: Surface mining near underground mining.
   Sec. 780.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 780.38  Support facilities.
   Sec. 783.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 783.18  Climatological information.
   Sec. 784.2  Objectives.
   Sec. 784.12  Operation plan: Existing structures.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.16  Reclamation plan: Siltation structures, impoundments, banks, dams, and embankments.
   Sec. 784.21  Fish and wildlife information.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.26  Air pollution control plan.
   Sec. 784.29  Diversions.
   Sec. 784.30  Support facilities.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.16  Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for
     steep slope mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 785.20  Augering.
   Sec. 785.21  Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 785.25  Lands eligible for remining.
   Sec. 800.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 800.11  Requirement to file a bond.
   Sec. 800.16  General terms and conditions of bond.
   Sec. 800.23  Self-bonding.
   Sec. 800.50  Forfeiture of bonds.
   Sec. 800.70  Bonding for anthracite operations in Pennsylvania.
   Sec. 810.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 815.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 815.15  Performance standards for coal exploration.
   Sec. 816.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 816.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.42  Hydrologic balance: Water quality standards and effluent limitations.
   Sec. 816.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
   Sec. 816.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.99  Slides and other damage.
   Sec. 816.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Sec. 816.107   Backfilling and grading: Steep slopes.
   Sec. 816.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 817.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.42  Hydrologic balance: Water quality standards and effluent limitations.
   Sec. 817.43  Diversions.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.57  Hydrologic balance: Stream buffer zones.
   Sec. 817.61  Use of explosives: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.67  Use of explosives: Control of adverse effects.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.99  Slides and other damage.
   Sec. 817.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Sec. 817.107   Backfilling and grading: Steep slopes.
   Sec. 817.121   Subsidence control.
   Sec. 817.131   Cessation of operations: Temporary.
   Sec. 819.15  Auger mining: Hydrologic balance.
   Sec. 820.11  Performance standards: Anthracite mines in Pennsylvania.
   Sec. 822.13  Monitoring.
   Sec. 825.2  Special bituminous coal mines in Wyoming.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards.
   Sec. 827.13  Coal preparation plants: Interim performance standards.
   Sec. 828.11  In situ processing: Performance standards.  
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 840.14  Availability of records.
   Sec. 840.16  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 842.16  Availability of records.
   Sec. 843.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 843.13  Suspension or revocation of permits: Pattern of violations.
   Sec. 843.18  Inability to comply.
   Sec. 843.20  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 843.21  Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.
   Sec. 845.2  Objective.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 845.15  Assessment of separate violations for each day.
   Sec. 846.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 846.18  Payment of penalty.
   Sec. 847.1  Scope.
   Sec. 847.11  Criminal penalties.
   Sec. 847.16  Civil actions for relief.
   Sec. 865.13  Investigation and conference procedures.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 870.16  Production records.
   Sec. 870.17  Filing the OSM-1 Form electronically.
   Sec. 879.12  Procedures for acquisition.
   Sec. 879.13  Acceptance of gifts of land.
   Sec. 880.16  Civil rights.
   Sec. 881.12  Civil rights.
   Sec. 881.11  Nondiscrimination.
   Sec. 882.13  Liens.
   Sec. 884.14  State reclamation plan approval.
   Sec. 886.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 886.16  Grant agreements.
   Sec. 886.18  Grant reduction, suspension, and termination.

COMPLIANCE REVIEW
30 CFR
   Sec. 702.17  Revocation and enforcement.
   Sec. 721.11  Extent.
   Sec. 773.11  Review of compliance history.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 840.16  Compliance conference.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 843.20  Compliance conference.

CONTEMPORANEOUS
30 CFR
   Sec. 774.10  Regulatory authority review of permits.
   Sec. 785.18  Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and
     underground mining activities.
   Sec. 810.2  Objective. 
   Sec. 816.100   Contemporaneous reclamation. 
   Sec. 817.100   Contemporaneous reclamation. 
   Sec. 819.15  Auger mining: Hydrologic balance.

CONTINUING RESPONSIBILITY
30 CFR
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 816.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 817.116   Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 870.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 874.12  Eligible coal lands and water.
   Sec. 875.12  Eligible lands and water prior to certification.
   Sec. 875.14  Eligible lands and water subsequent to certification.

COOPERATION   INTERAGENCY COOPERATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 756.14  Approval of amendments to the Navajo Nation's Abandoned Mine Land Plan.

COOPERATION   STATE AND FEDERAL
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 735.1  Scope.
   Sec. 735.13  Submission of estimated annual budgets and allocation of funds.
   Sec. 735.16  Special provisions for States with cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 740.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.17  Inspection, enforcement and civil penalties.
   Sec. 745.1  Scope.
   Sec. 745.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 745.11  Application and agreement.
   Sec. 745.12  Terms.
   Sec. 745.13  Authority reserved by the Secretary.
   Sec. 745.14  Amendments.
   Sec. 745.15  Termination.
   Sec. 745.16  Reinstatement.
   Sec. 880.12  Cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 880.13  Project implementation.
   Sec. 880.14  Administration of contributions.
   Sec. 880.15  Assistance by States or Indian tribes, local authorities, and private parties.
   Sec. 881.6  Project contract.

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 725.23  Reports.
   Sec. 735.1  Scope.
   Sec. 735.12  Eligibility for administration and enforcement grants.
   Sec. 735.13  Submission of estimated annual budgets and allocation of funds.
   Sec. 735.16  Special provisions for States with cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 735.18  Grant application procedures.
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 735.26  Reports.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 740.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 740.15  Bonds on Federal lands.
   Sec. 740.17  Inspection, enforcement and civil penalties.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 880.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 880.11  Qualifications of projects.
   Sec. 880.12  Cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 880.13  Project implementation.
   Sec. 880.14  Administration of contributions.
   Sec. 880.15  Assistance by States or Indian tribes, local authorities, and private parties.
   Sec. 881.2  Definitions.
   Sec. 881.4  Application of contribution.
   Sec. 881.5   Cooperative agreements.
   Sec. 881.6  Project contract.
   Sec. 881.7  Administration of contributions.
   Sec. 881.10  Obligations of States or local authorities.
   Part 745  State-Federal Cooperative Agreements

CROPLAND
30 CFR
   Sec. 701.5 Definitions.
   Sec. 715.13 Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.20 Revegetation.
   Sec. 716.7 Prime farmland
   Sec. 785.17 Prime farmland.
   Sec. 816.97 Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 816.111 Revegetation: General requirements.,
   Sec. 816.116 Revegetation: Standards for success.
   Sec. 817.97 Protection of fish, wildlife, and related environmental values.
   Sec. 817.111 Revegetation: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.116 Revegetation: Standards for success.
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DECISIONS
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 700.12  Petitions to initiate rulemaking.
   Sec. 701.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 702.11  Application requirements and procedures.
   Sec. 702.17  Revocation and enforcement.
   Sec. 705.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 706.3  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.12  Special exemption for small operators.
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.
   Sec. 716.6  Coal mines in Alaska.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 722.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 723.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 723.20  Final assessment and payment of penalty.
   Sec. 724.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 725.18  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 731.14  Content  requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.1  Scope.
   Sec. 732.11  Review by the Director.
   Sec. 732.13  Decision by the Secretary.
   Sec. 732.14  Resubmission of State programs.
   Sec. 732.17  State program amendments.
   Sec. 733.12  Procedures for substituting Federal enforcement of State programs or withdrawing approval of
     State programs.
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 736.14  Director's decision.
   Sec. 736.17  Consolidation of procedures.
   Sec. 736.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 740.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 745.11  Application and agreement.
   Sec. 746.13  Decision document and recommendation on mining plan.
   Sec. 750.11  Permits.
   Sec. 750.25  Permit fees.
   Sec. 761.16  Submission and processing of requests for valid existing rights determinations.
   Sec. 764.11  General process requirements.
   Sec. 764.15  Initial processing, recordkeeping, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 764.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 764.19  Decision.
   Sec. 769.14  Initial processing, recording, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 769.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 769.18  Decisions on petitions.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 773.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 773.4  Requirements to obtain permits.
   Sec. 773.6  Public participation in permit processing.
   Sec. 773.7  Review of permit applications.
   Sec. 773.12  Permit eligibility determination.
   Sec. 773.14  Eligibility for provisionally issued  permits.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 773.19  Permit issuance and right of renewal.
   Sec. 773.23  Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.28  Written agency decision on challenges to ownership or control listings or findings.
   Sec. 774.11  Post-permit issuance requirements for regulatory authorities and other actions based on ownership,
     control, and violation information.
   Sec. 774.13  Permit revisions.
   Sec. 774.15  Permit renewals.
   Sec. 774.17  Transfer, assignment, or sale of permit rights.
   Sec. 775.1  Scope and purpose.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 775.13  Judicial review.
   Sec. 785.12  Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.
   Sec. 785.13  Experimental practices mining.
   Sec. 785.17  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 842.15  Review of decision not to inspect or enforce.
   Sec. 843.15  Informal public hearing.
   Sec. 843.21  Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 845.20  Final assessment and payment of penalty.
   Sec. 846.14  Amount of individual civil penalty.
   Sec. 847.11  Criminal penalties.
   Sec. 847.16  Civil actions for relief.
   Sec. 884.16  Suspension of plan.
   Sec. 886.18  Grant reduction, suspension, and termination.

"DECISIONS AND APPEALS"
30 CFR
   Sec. 710.12  Special exemption for small operators.
   Sec. 723.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 725.18  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 735.21  Grant reduction and termination.
   Sec. 740.13  Permits.
   Sec. 773.23  Suspension or rescission requirements for improvidently issued permits.
   Sec. 773.28  Written agency decision on challenges to ownership or control listings or findings.
   Sec. 775.11  Administrative review.
   Sec. 843.21  Procedures for improvidently issued State permits.
   Sec. 845.13  Point system for penalties.
   Sec. 886.18  Grant reduction, suspension, and termination.

DESIGN CERTIFICATION
30 CFR
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 816.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 817.49  Impoundments.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 840.11  Inspections by State regulatory authority.
   Sec. 842.11  Federal inspections and monitoring.
   Sec. 843.14  Service of notices of violation, cessation orders, and show cause orders.

DESIGNATING LANDS OR AREAS AS UNSUITABLE FOR MINING
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.1  Scope.
   Sec. 701.1  Scope.
   Sec. 731.14  Content requirements for program submissions.
   Sec. 732.15  Criteria for approval or disapproval of State programs.
   Sec. 735.14  Coverage of grants.
   Sec. 736.15  Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program.
   Sec. 740.4  Responsibilities.
   Sec. 745.13  Authority reserved by the Secretary.
   Sec. 746.18  Mining plan modification.
   Sec. 750.14  Lands designated unsuitable for mining by Act of Congress.
   Sec. 762.1  Scope.
   Sec. 762.4  Responsibility.
   Sec. 762.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 762.11  Criteria for designating lands as unsuitable.
   Sec. 762.12  Additional criteria.
   Sec. 762.13  Land exempt from designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 762.14  Applicability to lands designated as unsuitable by Congress.
   Sec. 762.15  Exploration on land designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 764.1  Scope.
   Sec. 764.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 764.11  General process requirements.
   Sec. 764.13  Petitions.
   Sec. 764.15  Initial processing, recordkeeping, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 764.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 764.19  Decision.
   Sec. 764.21  Data base and inventory system requirements.
   Sec. 764.23  Public information.
   Sec. 764.25  Regulatory authority responsibility for implementation.
   Sec. 769.1  Scope.
   Sec. 769.10  Information collection.
   Sec. 769.11  Who may submit a petition.
   Sec. 769.12  Where to submit petitions.
   Sec. 769.13  Contents of petitions.
   Sec. 769.14  Initial processing, recording, and notification requirements.
   Sec. 769.15  Intervention.
   Sec. 769.16  Public information.
   Sec. 769.17  Hearing requirements.
   Sec. 769.18  Decisions on petitions.
   Sec. 769.19  Regulatory policy.
   Sec. 772.11  Notice requirements for exploration removing 250 tons of coal or less.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 773.15  Written findings for permit application approval.
   Sec. 778.16  Status of unsuitability claims.

DISPOSAL
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.19  Use of explosives.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining. 
   Sec. 717.11  General obligations.
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.15  Disposal of excess rock and earth materials on surface areas.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system. 
   Sec. 756.17  Approval of the Hopi Tribe's Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan Amendments. 
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 779.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans. 
   Sec. 780.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.14  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 780.18  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.35  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 783.25  Cross sections, maps, and plans.
   Sec. 784.11  Operation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.13  Reclamation plan: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.19  Underground development waste.
   Sec. 784.23  Operation plan: Maps and plans.
   Sec. 784.25  Return of coal processing waste to abandoned underground workings. 
   Sec. 785.22  In situ processing activities.
   Sec. 800.21  Collateral bonds. 
   Sec. 810.2  Objective.
   Sec. 815.15  Performance standards for coal exploration.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements. 
   Sec. 816.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fills/head-of-hollow fills. 
   Sec. 816.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 816.87  Coal mine waste: Burning and burned waste utilization. 
   Sec. 816.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 816.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.105   Backfilling and grading: Thick overburden.
   Sec. 816.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection. 
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fill/head-of-hollow fills.
   Sec. 817.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches. 
   Sec. 817.81  Coal mine waste: General requirements. 
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 817.87  Coal mine waste: Burning and burned waste utilization.
   Sec. 817.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.102   Backfilling and grading: General requirements. 
   Sec. 817.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 823.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 827.12  Coal preparation plants: Performance standards. 
   Sec. 828.11  In situ processing: Performance standards.
   Sec. 884.13  Content of proposed State reclamation plan.

DRAINAGE
30 CFR
   Sec. 700.11  Applicability.
   Sec. 701.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 710.5  Definitions.
   Sec. 715.13  Postmining use of land.
   Sec. 715.14  Backfilling and grading.
   Sec. 715.15  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 715.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 715.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 716.2  Steep-slope mining.
   Sec. 716.4  Special bituminous coal mines.
   Sec. 716.7  Prime farmland.
   Sec. 717.14  Backfilling and grading of road cuts, mine entry area cuts, and other surface work areas.
   Sec. 717.17  Protection of the hydrologic system.
   Sec. 717.18  Dams constructed of or impounding waste material.
   Sec. 772.12  Permit requirements for exploration that will remove more than 250 tons of coal or that will occur
     on lands designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.
   Sec. 779.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 780.21  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 780.35  Disposal of excess spoil.
   Sec. 780.37  Road systems.
   Sec. 783.24  Maps: General requirements.
   Sec. 784.14  Hydrologic information.
   Sec. 784.24  Road systems.
   Sec. 785.14  Mountaintop removal mining.
   Sec. 785.19  Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial
     valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.
   Sec. 800.40  Requirement to release performance bonds.
   Sec. 816.13  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.15  Casing and sealing of drilled holes: Permanent.
   Sec. 816.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 816.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 816.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 816.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 816.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fills/head-of-hollow fills.
   Sec. 816.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 816.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 816.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 816.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 816.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 816.104   Backfilling and grading: Thin overburden.
   Sec. 816.105   Backfilling and grading: Thick overburden.
   Sec. 816.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Sec. 816.133   Postmining land use.
   Sec. 816.150   Roads: general.
   Sec. 816.151   Primary roads.
   Sec. 817.13  Casing and sealing of exposed underground openings: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.15  Casing and sealing of underground openings: Permanent.
   Sec. 817.22  Topsoil and subsoil.
   Sec. 817.41  Hydrologic-balance protection.
   Sec. 817.45  Hydrologic balance: Sediment control measures.
   Sec. 817.46  Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.
   Sec. 817.71  Disposal of excess spoil: General requirements.
   Sec. 817.72  Disposal of excess spoil: Valley fill/head-of-hollow fills.
   Sec. 817.73  Disposal of excess spoil: Durable rock fills.
   Sec. 817.74  Disposal of excess spoil: Preexisting benches.
   Sec. 817.83  Coal mine waste: Refuse piles.
   Sec. 817.84  Coal mine waste: Impounding structures.
   Sec. 817.89  Disposal of noncoal mine wastes.
   Sec. 817.106   Backfilling and grading: Previously mined areas.
   Se