# Alaska Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 1999-02-22 · Effective 1999-02-22 · 64 FR 8510
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-4241
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** AK
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 8510
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 902
- **Publication date:** 1999-02-22
- **Effective date:** 1999-02-22
- **Interior docket:** AK-007-FOR, Amendment No. VII
## Abstract

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is approving a proposed amendment to the Alaska regulatory program (hereinafter, the ``Alaska program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Alaska proposed revisions to its regulations pertaining to general permitting requirements, general permit application information requirements, environmental resource information requirements, reclamation and operation plan requirements, permitting for special categories of mining, coal exploration, self- bonding requirements, performance standards, and general provisions, and included numerous editorial and recodification changes. The amendment was intended to revise the Alaska program to provide additional safeguarded, to clarify ambiguities, and to improve operational efficiency.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/02/22/99-4241/alaska-regulatory-program)
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