---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 762.13"
title: "30"
number: "762.13"
heading: "Land exempt from designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/762.13"
---

# §762.13. Land exempt from designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.


The requirements of this part do not apply to—

- (a) Lands on which surface coal mining operations were being conducted on the date of enactment of the Act;
- (b) Lands covered by a permit issued under the Act; or
- (c) Lands where substantial legal and financial commitments in surface coal mining operations were in existence prior to January 4, 1977.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 41350, Sept. 14, 1983, unless otherwise noted.