# Backfilling and Grading
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Direct final rule; request for comments. · Published 2025-11-28 · Effective 2026-01-27 · 90 FR 54573
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-21440
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 54573
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 816
- **Publication date:** 2025-11-28
- **Effective date:** 2026-01-27
- **Interior docket:** Docket ID: OSM-2025-0025 S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 256S180110
## Abstract

This direct final rule revises the Federal regulations to rescind an obsolete regulation that was suspended by the Secretary of the Interior in 1992 and that has been inoperative for 33 years. The regulations prescribed time and distance performance standards for the completion of rough backfilling and grading for surface mining operations.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/28/2025-21440/backfilling-and-grading)
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