# Colorado Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2000-11-24 · 65 FR 70478
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-29970
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** CO
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 70478
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 906
- **Publication date:** 2000-11-24
- **Interior docket:** CO-032-FOR
## Abstract

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is approving a proposed amendment to the Colorado regulatory program (hereinafter, the "Colorado program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Colorado proposed revisions to and additions of rules about definitions; permit application requirements; comment period for revisions; requirements for permit approval or denial; and performance standards for sedimentation ponds, discharge structures, impoundments, stream buffer zones, coal exploration, and coal processing plants and support facilities not located at or near the mine site or not within the permit area for the mine. Colorado revised its program to be consistent with the corresponding Federal regulations and clarify ambiguities.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/11/24/00-29970/colorado-regulatory-program)
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