North Dakota Regulatory Program

What it does

We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), are approving an amendment to the North Dakota regulatory program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). North Dakota proposed amendments to its program based on changes to the North Dakota Century Code made by the State legislature that resulted in changes to the North Dakota Administrative Code for surface coal mining and reclamation operations. The changes added a perfected lien or security interest in real property to the definition of collateral bond. The changes also added conditions that must be met for real property pledged as collateral bond.

The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

30 CFR 934

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office has published 21 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 24 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The effective date is March 16, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OSM-2022-0010 on Regulations.gov
• Title 30 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register