# North Dakota Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2004-01-20 · 69 FR 2663
## Document
- **Document number:** 04-1064
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** ND
- **Federal Register citation:** 69 FR 2663
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 934
- **Publication date:** 2004-01-20
- **Interior docket:** ND-047-FOR, Amendment No. XXXIV
## Abstract

We are approving a proposed amendment to the North Dakota regulatory program (the "North Dakota program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). North Dakota proposed revisions to rules that would allow the State to accept letters of credit as the monetary pledge for collateral bonds, would allow phased bonding over a bond area, would clarify provisions on blasting records kept by mining companies, and would standardize terminology in revegetation success standards for bond release. North Dakota intends to revise its program to provide additional safeguards, clarify ambiguities, and improve operational efficiency.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/01/20/04-1064/north-dakota-regulatory-program)
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