CFR > Title 30 - Mineral Resources > CHAPTER VII—OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR > SUBCHAPTER K—PERMANENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (parts 810 to 828) > PART 810—PERMANENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS—GENERAL PROVISIONS > 810.4—Responsibility.

810.4—Responsibility.

(a) The Director shall ensure that performance standards and design requirements at least as stringent as the standards of this subchapter are implemented and enforced under every regulatory program.
(b) The State regulatory authority shall ensure that performance standards and design requirements at least as stringent as the standards in this subchapter are implemented and enforced under every State program.
(c) Each person conducting coal exploration or surface coal mining and reclamation operations is responsible for complying with performance standards and design requirements which are at least as stringent as the standards in this subchapter and the applicable regulatory program.