Regulations last checked for updates: May 04, 2025

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: Apr 16, 2025
§ 3461.0-7 - Scope.

Each criterion in § 3461.1 of this title uses the phrase “shall be considered unsuitable” as shorthand for “shall be considered unsuitable for all or certain stipulated methods of coal mining involving surface coal mining operations, as defined in § 3400.0-5(mm) of this title.

[44 FR 42638, July 19, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 33148, July 30, 1982]
authority: The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended and supplemented (30 U.S.C. 181
source: 44 FR 42638, July 19, 1979, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 43 CFR 3461.0-7