---
kind: "unit"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Resources"
key: "chVII/subchG/part785"
level: "part"
label: "Part 785"
heading: "Requirements for Permits for Special Categories of Mining"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/chVII-subchG-part785"
sections_count: 16
---

# Part 785 — Requirements for Permits for Special Categories of Mining

Title 30 C.F.R. — Mineral Resources › Chapter VII — Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior › Subchapter G — Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations Permits and Coal Exploration Systems under Regulatory Programs

## Sections

- [§785.1. Scope.](/cfr/30/785.1.md)
- [§785.2. Objective.](/cfr/30/785.2.md)
- [§785.10. Information collection.](/cfr/30/785.10.md)
- [§785.11. Anthracite surface coal mining and reclamation operations.](/cfr/30/785.11.md)
- [§785.12. Special bituminous surface coal mining and reclamation operations.](/cfr/30/785.12.md)
- [§785.13. Experimental practices mining.](/cfr/30/785.13.md)
- [§785.14. Mountaintop removal mining.](/cfr/30/785.14.md)
- [§785.15. Steep slope mining.](/cfr/30/785.15.md)
- [§785.16. Permits incorporating variances from approximate original contour restoration requirements for steep slope mining.](/cfr/30/785.16.md)
- [§785.17. Prime farmland.](/cfr/30/785.17.md)
- [§785.18. Variances for delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement in combined surface and underground mining activities.](/cfr/30/785.18.md)
- [§785.19. Surface coal mining and reclamation operations on areas or adjacent to areas including alluvial valley floors in the arid and semiarid areas west of the 100th meridian.](/cfr/30/785.19.md)
- [§785.20. Augering.](/cfr/30/785.20.md)
- [§785.21. Coal preparation plants not located within the permit area of a mine.](/cfr/30/785.21.md)
- [§785.22. In situ processing activities.](/cfr/30/785.22.md)
- [§785.25. Lands eligible for remining.](/cfr/30/785.25.md)