Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Albuquerque Area Office Topic-Specific Evaluation Report, Evaluation Year 2009. New Mexico Regulatory Program

摘要

The purpose of oversight is to evaluate a State or Tribes ability to accomplish the goals and responsibilities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. OSM and State personnel developed a workplan, which governed the oversight of the New Mexico Title V program for the 2009 evaluation period. The Workplan contained site-specific topics, which focused on the major goals of SMCRA: elimination of off-site impacts and achieving successful reclamation according to the requirements of the post-mining land use. The strategic plan was to use oversight to generate ideas for improving regulatory efficiency and on-the-ground reclamation. OSM and MMD agreed on topics for the Evaluation Year 2009 Workplan, and a final State/Federal Workplan was sent it out for public comment on November 20, 2008. The final oversight report summarizes the methods used, problems identified, and solutions implemented by the Team during the oversight period. The report provides a summary of the States program performance during the oversight period based on the performance measurements described in the Workplan. The reporting period for this evaluation began on July 1, 2008 and ended on June 30, 2009.