# West Virginia Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2002-05-29 · 67 FR 37610
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-13368
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** VA
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 37610
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 948
- **Publication date:** 2002-05-29
- **Interior docket:** WV-094-FOR
## Abstract

We are announcing our decision to approve an amendment and to remove required program amendments on the West Virginia surface coal mining regulatory program (the West Virginia program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The amendment we are approving concerns the deletion of a State provision that imposed a regulatory limitation on expenditure of funds for water treatment at bond forfeiture sites. The required program amendments we are removing concern the regulatory limitation on expenditure of funds for water treatment, and the effectiveness of West Virginia's alternative bonding system (ABS) in providing sufficient funds to complete reclamation, including water treatment, at all existing and future bond forfeiture sites.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/05/29/02-13368/west-virginia-regulatory-program)
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