West Virginia Regulatory Program

Document 2025-21791 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Interior in the Federal Register on December 3, 2025, with an effective date of January 2, 2026. We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), approve in part an amendment to the West Virginia regulatory program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). This amendment makes changes to the West Virginia Code of State Rules (CSR), authorized under the West Virginia Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act (WVSCMRA), relating to bonding requirements for operations seeking permit renewals, topsoil, inactive status, and contemporaneous reclamation. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/03/2025-21791/west-virginia-regulatory-program.

No. Document 2025-21791 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.