# Prior Balance Replacement Funds
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Direct final rule; request for comments. · Published 2025-11-24 · Effective 2026-01-23 · 90 FR 52858
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-20827
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 52858
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 872
- **Publication date:** 2025-11-24
- **Effective date:** 2026-01-23
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. OSM-2025-0013 S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 256S180110
## Abstract

This direct final rule revises the Federal regulations to rescind language identifying obsolete funds as part of the moneys that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) must distribute to eligible States and Tribes each fiscal year. The existing regulations refer to prior balance replacement funds, which are moneys from the United States Treasury's General Fund that replaced State or Tribal share funds that were allocated before October 1, 2007, but never appropriated by Congress.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20827/prior-balance-replacement-funds)
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