---
kind: "unit"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Resources"
key: "chVII/subchF/part762"
level: "part"
label: "Part 762"
heading: "Criteria for Designating Areas as Unsuitable for Surface Coal Mining Operations"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/chVII-subchF-part762"
sections_count: 8
---

# Part 762 — Criteria for Designating Areas as Unsuitable for Surface Coal Mining Operations

Title 30 C.F.R. — Mineral Resources › Chapter VII — Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior › Subchapter F — Areas Unsuitable for Mining

## Sections

- [§762.1. Scope.](/cfr/30/762.1.md)
- [§762.4. Responsibility.](/cfr/30/762.4.md)
- [§762.5. Definitions.](/cfr/30/762.5.md)
- [§762.11. Criteria for designating lands as unsuitable.](/cfr/30/762.11.md)
- [§762.12. Additional criteria.](/cfr/30/762.12.md)
- [§762.13. Land exempt from designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.](/cfr/30/762.13.md)
- [§762.14. Applicability to lands designated as unsuitable by Congress.](/cfr/30/762.14.md)
- [§762.15. Exploration on land designated as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations.](/cfr/30/762.15.md)