The official page of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE)
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is a bureau within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for protecting society and the environment from the adverse effects of surface coal mining operations. For the official source of information about the OSMRE, please visit our website at: https://www.osmre.gov/. This page is not intended to be used to report Abandoned Mine Land emergencies or lodge Citizen Complaints. To report an emergency, please contact your nearest state or tribal regulatory agency (https://www.osmre.gov/contact-us/map). To lodge a Citizen’s Complaint, please contact the local OSMRE staff (https://www.osmre.gov/contact-us/map) for your state or send an email to OSMRE's Citizen Request staff. Note that information, including personally identifiable information, that you voluntarily submit to or publish on an OSMRE page on a third party site may be treated as public information and archived accordingly in order to abide with applicable laws. If you choose to engage with the OSMRE through a blog or comment feature on a third-party social media website or application, the OSMRE reserves the right to moderate, remove or reject (not post) comments that contain:
Social Security Numbers, home or business addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, or other personally identifiable information (PII);
Vulgar or abusive language;
Personal attacks of any kind;
Offensive terms that target specific groups;
Spam or comments that are clearly “off topic”;
Commercial promotions;
Solicitation of funds;
Information that promotes or opposes any political party, person campaigning for elected office, or any ballot proposition;
Reports of criminal or suspicious activity – if you have information for law enforcement, please contact your local law enforcement agency;
Unsolicited proposals or other business ideas or inquiries;
Solicitations for contracting or commercial business;
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Any claims, demands, informal or formal complaints, or any other form of legal and/or administrative notices or processes;
Duplicate posts; or Embedded links to external websites or applications. The OSMRE does not discriminate against any views, but reserves the right to remove or reject (not post) comments that do not adhere to these standards. In addition, the views expressed by members of the public on official pages maintained by the OSMRE on third-party social media websites and applications do not reflect the official views of the OSMRE or the U.S. government nor does the OSMRE guarantee the accuracy of such information posted by members of the public on those websites.
