Self-Bonding for Mining Companies Triggers Clash in Comments to OSMRE Docket

摘要

Familiar fault lines over self-bonding emerged in public comments filed with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, with environmentalists calling for tighter rules and mining groups saying states should decide. The agency's docket, which closed July 20, collected responses to a petition from WildEarth Guardians that asked OSMRE to tighten its rules on self-bonding, a financial mechanism that lets companies obtain mining licenses by putting up their own assets as collateral for future land reclamation.