# Pennsylvania Regulatory Program
> **Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement** · Final rule; approval of amendment. · Published 2007-10-04 · Effective 2007-10-04 · 72 FR 56619
## Document
- **Document number:** E7-19661
- **Category:** mining
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- **State:** PA
- **Federal Register citation:** 72 FR 56619
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 938
- **Publication date:** 2007-10-04
- **Effective date:** 2007-10-04
- **Interior docket:** PA-149-FOR
## Abstract

We are approving an amendment to the Pennsylvania regulatory program (the "Pennsylvania program") regulations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The amendment adds new section 25 Pennsylvania Code (PA Code) 86.6 which provides for the exemption from the permitting requirements of 25 PA Code Chapters 87 and 88, relating to surface mining of coal, when extraction of coal is incidental to government-financed construction or government-financed reclamation projects and specified requirements are met.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/10/04/E7-19661/pennsylvania-regulatory-program)
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