# West Virginia Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2006-08-28 · Effective 2006-08-28 · 71 FR 50843
## Document
- **Document number:** E6-14228
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** VA
- **Federal Register citation:** 71 FR 50843
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 948
- **Publication date:** 2006-08-28
- **Effective date:** 2006-08-28
- **Interior docket:** WV-109-FOR
## Abstract

We are approving an amendment to the West Virginia regulatory program (the West Virginia program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). West Virginia revised the Code of West Virginia (W. Va. Code) as amended by Senate Bill 461 concerning water rights and replacement, and revised the Code of State Regulations (CSR) as amended by Committee Substitute for House Bill 4135 by adding a postmining land use of bio-oil cropland, and the criteria for approving bio-oil cropland as a postmining land use for mountaintop removal mining operations.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/08/28/E6-14228/west-virginia-regulatory-program)
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