Certification and Noncoal Reclamation

Document 2025-21442 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Interior in the Federal Register on November 28, 2025, with an effective date of January 27, 2026. This direct final rule revises the Federal regulations to rescind language identifying obsolete funds as part of the moneys that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) must distribute to eligible States and Tribes each fiscal year. The existing regulations refer to prior balance replacement funds, which are moneys from the United States Treasury's General Fund that replaced State or Tribal share funds that were allocated before October 1, 2007, but never appropriated by Congress. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/28/2025-21442/certification-and-noncoal-reclamation.

No. Document 2025-21442 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.