Utah Regulatory Program

What it does

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Utah coal regulatory program (hereinafter, the Utah program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Utah submitted this proposed amendment on its own initiative, following the passage of Utah House Bill 419 (HB 419) during the 2026 legislative session. HB 419 amended Title 72B, chapter 5, part 8 of the Utah Code Annotated (UCA) and would require that a bond be posted by a plaintiff who obtains a "stay or other temporary remedy issued by an agency for an "environmental action." HB 419 also states that these changes are effective as of May 6, 2026. This document gives the times and locations that the Utah program and this proposed amendment to that program are available for your inspection, the comment period during which you may submit written comments on the amendment, and the procedures that we will follow for the public hearing, if one is requested.

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

What it would change

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

30 CFR 944

What happens next and when

We will accept written comments on this amendment until 4:00 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time (M.D.T.) June 8, 2026. If requested, we may hold a public hearing or meeting on the amendment on June 1, 2026. We will accept requests to speak at a hearing until 4:00 p.m., M.D.T. on May 22, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OSM-2026-0034 on Regulations.gov
• Title 30 on eCFR

The record as published

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