---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 816.2"
title: "30"
number: "816.2"
heading: "Objectives."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/816.2"
---

# §816.2. Objectives.


This part is intended to ensure that all surface mining activities are conducted in a manner which preserves and enhances environmental and other values in accordance with the Act.


## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 15395, Mar. 13, 1979, as amended at 81 FR 93392, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54979, Nov. 17, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.; and sec 115 of Pub. L. 98-146.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 15395, Mar. 13, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 15395, Mar. 13, 1979, as amended at 81 FR 93392, Dec. 20, 2016; 82 FR 54979, Nov. 17, 2017]