# Interpretative Rule Related to Subsidence Due to Underground Coal Mining
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule and record of decision. · Published 1999-12-17 · Effective 2000-01-18 · 64 FR 70838
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-30893
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 70838
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 761
- **Publication date:** 1999-12-17
- **Effective date:** 2000-01-18
## Abstract

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement interprets sections 522(e) and 701(28) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and implementing rules to provide that subsidence due to underground mining is not a surface coal mining operation. Subsidence therefore is not prohibited in areas protected under the Act . Neither subsurface activities that may result in subsidence, nor actual subsidence, are prohibited on lands protected by section 522(e). Subsidence is subject to regulation under other applicable provisions of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, primarily sections 516 and 720.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/12/17/99-30893/interpretative-rule-related-to-subsidence-due-to-underground-coal-mining)
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