Union Calendar No. 339
117th CONGRESS 2d Session |
[Report No. 117–435]
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes.
March 30, 2022
Mr. Cartwright (for himself and Mr. McKinley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
July 26, 2022
Additional sponsors: Mr. Trone, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Porter, Mr. Lamb, Mrs. Bustos, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Raskin, Ms. DeGette, and Mr. Griffith
July 26, 2022
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 30, 2022]
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act” or the “STREAM Act”.
SEC. 2. Activities that are eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
Section 40701(c) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (30 U.S.C. 1231a(c)) is amended—
(2) by adding at the end the following:
“(2) ACID MINE DRAINAGE ABATEMENT AND TREATMENT.—
“(A) IN GENERAL.—Not more than 30 percent of the total amount of a grant made annually under subsection (b)(1) may be retained by the recipient of the grant, if those amounts are deposited into an acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund established under State law, from which amounts (together with all interest earned on the amounts) are expended by the State for the abatement of the causes and the treatment of the effects of acid mine drainage resulting from coal mining practices, including for the costs of building, operating, maintaining, and rehabilitating acid mine drainage treatment systems.
“(B) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Each recipient of a grant under subsection (b)(1) that deposits grant amounts into an acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund under subparagraph (A) shall—
“(i) offer amendments to the inventory maintained under section 403(c) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(c)) to reflect the use of the amounts for acid mine drainage abatement and treatment; and
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To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes. | |||||
July 26, 2022 | |||||
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed |