The Interior Department has broken the law by failing to adequately respond to a public records request on its proposed stream protection rule, two free market advocacy groups told a federal court (Energy & Env't Legal Inst. v. Dep't of Interior, D.D.C., No. l:16-cv-00093, 1/19/16). The Energy and Environment Legal Institute and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement in October 2015 for certain texts and e-mails related to Interior's proposed rule that aims to protect streams from coal mining waste (RIN 1029-AC63). The rule, proposed in July, would limit generation of mining waste and where that mining waste could be placed relative to streams (46 ER 2139, 7/17/15).
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机译：两个自由市场倡导组织告诉联邦法院，内政部未能充分回应有关其拟议的河流保护规则的公开记录要求，从而违反了法律（Energy＆Env't Legal Inst。v。Dep't of Interior， DDC，No.l：16-cv-00093，1 / 19/16）。能源与环境法律研究所和自由市场环境法诊所于2015年10月向该机构的露天采矿复垦和执法办公室提交了《信息自由法》要求，要求提供某些与内政部拟议规则有关的旨在保护溪流的文字和电子邮件来自煤矿废物（RIN 1029-AC63）。 7月提出的规则将限制采矿废料的产生以及采矿废料相对于溪流的放置位置（46 ER 2139，7 / 17/15）。
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