Sec. 2. Publication of scientific products for rules and related environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, and economic assessments
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Title V of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall make publicly available, by online publication and in the Federal Register, 90 days before the publication of any draft, supplemental, final, or emergency rule under this Act, or any related environmental analysis or economic assessment, each scientific product the Secretary relied on in developing the rule, environmental analysis, or economic assessment.
For those scientific products receiving Federal funds in part, or in full, the Secretary shall also make publicly available— the raw data used for the federally funded scientific product; and background information of the authors of the scientific study. Failure to make publicly available any scientific product 90 days prior to the publication of— any draft, or supplemental rule, environmental analysis, or economic assessment shall extend by one day the notice and comment period for each day such scientific study is not made available; or any final or emergency rule shall delay the effective date of the final rule by 60 days plus each day the scientific product is withheld.
If the Secretary withholds any scientific product for longer than 6 months, the Secretary shall withdraw the rule, environmental analysis, or economic assessment. . The table of contents in the first section of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such title the following: Sec. 530. Publication of scientific products for proposed rules and related environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, and economic assessments. .
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Publication of scientific products for rules and related environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, and economic assessments
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