---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 850.12"
title: "30"
number: "850.12"
heading: "Responsibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/850.12"
---

# §850.12. Responsibility.

- (a) The regulatory authority is responsible for promulgating rules governing the training, examination, certification and enforcement of a blaster certification program for surface coal mining operations. When the regulatory authority is a State, the State shall submit these rules of the Office of Surface Mining for approval under parts [731](/cfr/30/part731.md) and [732](/cfr/30/part732.md) of this chapter.
- (b) The regulatory authority shall develop and adopt a program to examine and certify all persons who are directly responsible for the use of explosives in a surface coal mining operation within 12 months after approval of a State program or implementation of a Federal program or within 12 months after March 4, 1983 of this rule, whichever is later. The Director may approve an extension of the 12-month period upon a demonstration of good cause.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 9492, Mar. 4, 1983, as amended at 48 FR 44781, Sept. 30, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 95-87, 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 9492, Mar. 4, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 9492, Mar. 4, 1983, as amended at 48 FR 44781, Sept. 30, 1983]