# Tennessee Abandoned Mine Land Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2013-02-12 · Effective 2013-02-12 · 78 FR 9803
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-03053
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** TN
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 9803
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 942
- **Publication date:** 2013-02-12
- **Effective date:** 2013-02-12
- **Interior docket:** SATS NO. TN-001-FOR
## Abstract

We are approving an amendment to the Tennessee Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Plan (AML Plan). A 2006 amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act), authorized reinstitution of the Tennessee AML program as a minimum funded program state following the suspension of the AML Plan and program after Tennessee's regulatory program was withdrawn in 1984. Pursuant to the authority granted under the Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA), Section 59-8-324(m), Tennessee's Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), has revised the AML Plan to reflect statutory, regulatory, policy, procedural, and organizational changes that have occurred since 1984.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/02/12/2013-03053/tennessee-abandoned-mine-land-program)
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