---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 736.11"
title: "30"
number: "736.11"
heading: "General procedural requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/736.11"
---

# §736.11. General procedural requirements.

- (a) **Promulgation.**
  - (1) The Director shall promulgate and, subject to the provisions of this part, implement a Federal program for a State if the Director reasonably expects coal exploration or surface coal mining and reclamation operations to exist on non-Federal and non-Indian lands within the State at any time before June 1985, and the State fails to—
    - (i) Submit a State program for regulation of coal exploration and surface coal mining and reclamation operations on non-Federal and non-Indian lands within that State to the Director as provided in [30 CFR 731.12](/cfr/30/731.12.md); or
    - (ii) Resubmit an acceptable State program within 60 days of a notice of disapproval of a State program pursuant to [§ 732.13(f)](/cfr/30/732.13.md?p=f). The Director shall not promulgate a Federal program before the expiration of the initial period allowed for submission of a State program, as provided in [§ 731.12](/cfr/30/731.12.md).
  - (2) The Director shall promulgate a complete Federal program for a State upon the withdrawal of approval of an entire State program under [30 CFR 733.13](/cfr/30/733.13.md).
  - (3) The Director shall promulgate a partial Federal program for a State upon the withdrawal of approval of part of a State program under [30 CFR part 733](/cfr/30/part733.md).
- (b) **Revision.** The Director may revise a Federal program for a State, if necessary to further the purposes of the Act and the regulations adopted under the Act.
- (c) **Termination.** The Director shall terminate appropriate portions of a Federal program for a State, upon approval of a State program under 30 CFR parts [731](/cfr/30/part731.md) and [732](/cfr/30/part732.md) that replaces a complete or partial Federal program for that State.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 15329, Mar. 13, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 26367, June 17, 1982; 85 FR 75190, Nov. 24, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. , as amended; and Pub. L. 100-34.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 15329, Mar. 13, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 15329, Mar. 13, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 26367, June 17, 1982; 85 FR 75190, Nov. 24, 2020]