Open the OSM Training Program to coal company employees

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Printed page 535 16. Department of the Interior

“Permit coal company employees to benefit from the OSM Training Program, which is currently restricted to state and federal employees.”

What has happened

Aug 27, 2026 Not started
The OSMRE Technical Training Program has not been opened to coal company employees. OSMRE's FY2027 justification describes it as providing "essential, unique, technical training to support State and Tribal AML reclamation activities" and requests $822,000, a cut of $7,000, with no change of eligibility; the Federal Register corpus for the window contains no rule or notice on training eligibility; and Interior's 2025–2026 press releases record no such change. Where the administration has widened industry's role it has done so through the state programs instead — the West Virginia cooperative agreement of 2026-02-18.
- Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement FY2027 Budget Justifications and Performance Information
  Primary Executive branch Apr 1, 2026
- Interior press release: Department of the Interior and West Virginia Sign Agreement Expanding State Oversight of Coal Mining on Federal Land
  Primary Executive branch Feb 18, 2026

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The program’s audience is set by policy, and the policy has not changed.

Action: expand
Object: OSM Training Program
ID: 1514