---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 736.15"
title: "30"
number: "736.15"
heading: "Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/736.15"
---

# §736.15. Implementation, enforcement, and maintenance of a Federal program.

- (a) The Director shall implement, administer, enforce, and maintain a Federal program or any revision thereto not later than 30 days after a Federal program is promulgated or revised.
- (b)
  - (1) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)(2)](#b-2) of this section, the Director shall implement the procedures and criteria of a Federal program for a State for designating lands unsuitable for all or certain types of surface coal mining one year after a Federal program is made effective for a State.
  - (2) When a complete or partial Federal program is promulgated because of a State's failure to implement, maintain, or enforce adequately all or a part of its State program, all applicable portions of the Federal program for the State under this part shall be effective immediately upon implementation of the Federal program.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 41348, Sept. 14, 1983]

### 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

[48 FR 41348, Sept. 14, 1983]