30 U.S.C. § 1301
Experimental practices
United States · Title 30 — MINERAL LANDS AND MINING · Status: effective
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- 30 U.S.C. § 1301, Experimental practices, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/467242
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In order to encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to allow post-mining land use for industrial, commercial, residential, or public use (including recreational facilities), the regulatory authority with approval by the Secretary may authorize departures in individual cases on an experimental basis from the environmental protection performance standards promulgated under sections 1265 and 1266 of this title. Such departures may be authorized if (i) the experimental practices are potentially more or at least as environmentally protective, during and after mining operations, as those required by promulgated standards;
(ii) the mining operations approved for particular land-use or other purposes are not larger or more numerous than necessary to determine the effectiveness and economic feasibility of the experimental practices; and (iii) the experimental practices do not reduce the protection afforded public health and safety below that provided by promulgated standards.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally