# Coal Production Fees
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule. · Published 2004-09-17 · Effective 2004-09-17 · 69 FR 56122
## Document
- **Document number:** 04-20997
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **Federal Register citation:** 69 FR 56122
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 870
- **Publication date:** 2004-09-17
- **Effective date:** 2004-09-17
## Abstract

This rule sets forth the criteria and procedures that we will use to establish fees under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act) for coal produced after September 30, 2004, when the current statutory fees expire. We also are providing notice of the fees established for FY 2005. We are establishing the fee at a rate to provide for the transfer from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund (AML Fund or the Fund) to the Combined Benefit Fund (CBF), a total expected to be approximately $69 million for FY 2005. The fees necessary to generate the transfer amount are established as follows for each ton of coal produced for sale, transfer, or use: Surface-mined coal (except lignite), 8.8 cents per ton; Underground- mined coal (except lignite), 3.8 cents per ton; and, Lignite, 2.5 cents per ton. We also are publishing in today's Federal Register a proposed rule that includes the changes made in this final rule as well as some additional issues related to the fee and the AML Fund.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/09/17/04-20997/coal-production-fees)
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