16. Department of the Interior · Minor
Revise the Applicant Violator System to allow extenuating circumstances
Printed page 535 16. Department of the Interior
“Revise the Applicant Violator System, the nationwide database for the federal and state programs, to permit federal and state regulators to consider extenuating circumstances.”
What has happened
- Not started
No revision of the Applicant Violator System to let federal and state regulators weigh extenuating circumstances was found. Greps of every Federal Register rule, proposed rule and notice in the window return no document naming the Applicant Violator System; OSMRE's FY2027 congressional justification does not propose a change to it; and Interior's 2025–2026 press releases do not mention it. OSMRE's deregulatory work in the window went to the performance standards instead — backfilling and grading, siltation structures, subsidence control, reclamation requirements and the ten-day notice rule.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
A named database with a named change; there is no record of either.
Checked against the full 2026 Unified Agenda on reginfo.gov (Interior, agencyCd 1000, active stages, read 2026-09-01; agenda published in the Federal Register 2026-08-14). OSMRE files two active entries and neither names the Applicant Violator System: RIN 1029-AC90 (civil monetary penalty inflation adjustment) and RIN 1029-AD01, “Zero-Based Regulating” (Proposed Rule Stage, Previously Published, NPRM projected 09/2026), which inserts sunset provisions across 30 CFR chapter VII under Executive Order 14270. A sunset clause is not the revision the Quote asks for. The same two entries are the whole of OSMRE’s agenda for #1513 and #1514 as well.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Applicant Violator System
- ID
- 1515