Proposed Extension of Information Collection: Refuse Piles and Impoundment Structures

Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration wants another stint collecting data on refuse piles and impoundment structures.

Coal-country engineers know these structures can fail catastrophically; the paperwork is how MSHA keeps the map current.

Filing abstract (agency text): The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre- clearance consultation program for all information collections, to provide the public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed collections of information, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is…

Mine operators and MSHA counsel: check the ICR burden estimates and comment deadline in the Federal Register notice.

Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/21/2026-19266/proposed-extension-of-information-collection-refuse-piles-and-impoundment-structures

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.