Funding priorities.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) All eligible applications within a State are to be assigned a funding priority and subpriority. Assignment of a priority and subpriority establishes the order in which the proposed reclamation work will be selected and evaluated for funding. (See § 632.20(b) for additional selection criteria.) Applications for individual, joint, or special projects (See § 632.18) for areas of different priorities or subpriorities are to be assigned the highest applicable priority or subpriority. The funding priorities are as follows: (1) (2) (3) (b) Eligible and feasible applications for program assistance within each priority category (§ 632.12(a)) are to be funded in the following order: (1) Individual persons or public entities who owned the eligible area before May 2, 1977, and who neither consented to nor exercised control over the mining operation. (2) Individual persons who would actively use the area, if reclaimed, for agricultural or silvicultural purposes. (3) All other participants.

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 632.12