(c) AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 403.—Section 403 of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 
(30 U.S.C. 1233(a)) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘general 
welfare,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘health, 
safety, and general welfare’’ and inserting 
‘‘health and safety’’, and inserting ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon at the end; 
(C) in paragraph (3) by striking the semi-
colon at the end and inserting a period; and 
(D) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5). 
(2) In subsection (b)—
(A) by striking the heading and inserting 
‘‘Water Supply Restoration.—’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘up to 30 
percent of the’’. 
(3) In subsection (c) by inserting ‘‘, subject to 
the approval of the Secretary,’’ after ‘‘amendments’’. 
(d) AMENDMENT TO SECTION 406.—Section 406(h) 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 (30 U.S.C. 1236(h)) is amended by striking ‘‘Soil 
Conservation Service’’ and inserting ‘‘Natural Resources 
Conservation Service’’.
(e) FURTHER AMENDMENT TO SECTION 406.—Sec-
tion 406 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1236) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(i) There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, from amounts in the Treasury 
other than amounts in the fund, such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
(f) AMENDMENT TO SECTION 408.—Section 408(a) 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 (30 U.S.C. 1238) is amended by striking ‘‘who 
owned the surface prior to May 2, 1977, and’’. 
(g) AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 411.—Section 411 of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 
(30 U.S.C. 1240a) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection (a) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before 
the first sentence, and by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may, on the Secretary’s own voli-
tion, make the certification referred to in paragraph (1) 
on behalf of any State or Indian tribe referred to in para-
graph (1) if on the basis of the inventory referred to in 
section 403(c) all reclamation projects relating to the pri-
orities set forth in section 403(a) for eligible lands and 
water pursuant to section 404 in such State or tribe have
been completed. The Secretary shall only make such cer-
tification after notice in the Federal Register and oppor-
tunity for public comment.’’. 
(2) By adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) STATE
SHARE
FOR
CERTAIN
CERTIFIED 
STATES.—(1)(A) From moneys referred to in subsection 
(a) of section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
191(a)) that are paid into the Treasury after the date of 
the enactment of this subsection and that are not paid 
to States under section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act or 
reserved as part of the reclamation fund under such sec-
tion, the Secretary shall pay to each qualified State, on 
a proportional basis, an amount equal to the sum of the 
aggregate unappropriated amount allocated to such quali-
fied State under section 402(g)(1)(A). 
‘‘(B) In this paragraph the term ‘qualified State’ 
means a State for which a certification is made under sub-
section (a) and in which there are public domain lands 
available for leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 181 et seq.) 
‘‘(2) Payments to States under this subsection shall 
be made, without regard to any limitation in section 
401(d), in the same manner as if paid under section 35 
of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191) and concur-
rently with payments to States under that section.
‘‘(3) The amount allocated to any State under section 
402(g)(1)(A) that is paid to such State as a result of a 
payment under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be 
reallocated and available for grants under section 
402(g)(5).’’. 
(h) EXTENSION OF LIMITATION ON APPLICATION OF 
PROHIBITION ON ISSUANCE OF PERMIT.—Section 510(e) 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 (30 U.S.C. 1260(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘2004’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2019’’. 
SEC. 3. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION 
OF THIS TITLE. 
(a) TRANSITION RULES.—(1) Amounts allocated 
under section 402(g)(2) of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(g)(2)) (ex-
cluding interest) prior to the date of enactment of this 
Act for the program set forth under section 406 of that 
Act (30 U.S.C. 1236), but not appropriated prior to such 
date, shall be available in fiscal year 2004 and thereafter 
for the transfers referred to in section 402(h) of such Act 
(30 U.S.C. 1232(h)), as amended by this Act, in the same 
manner as are other amounts available for such transfers. 
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, inter-
est credited to the fund established by section 401 of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30
U.S.C. 1231) that is not transferred to the Combined 
Benefit Fund referred to in section 402(h) of such Act 
(30 U.S.C. 1232(h)), as amended by this Act, prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act shall be available in fiscal 
year 2004 and thereafter for the transfers referred to in 
section 402(h) of such Act (30 U.S.C. 1232(h)), as 
amended by this Act, in the same manner as are other 
amounts available for such transfers. 
(b) INVENTORY.—Within one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
complete a review of all additions made, pursuant to 
amendments offered by States and Indian tribes after De-
cember 31, 1998, to the inventory referred to in section 
403(c) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(c)) to ensure that such addi-
tions reflect eligible lands and waters pursuant to section 
404 of such Act (30 U.S.C. 1234) that meet the priorities 
set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 403(a) of 
such Act (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)(1) and (2)), and are cor-
rectly identified pursuant to such priorities. Any lands or 
waters that were included in the inventory pursuant to the 
general welfare standard set forth in section 403(a) of 
such Act (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)) before the date of enact-
ment of this Act that are determined in the review to no 
longer meet the criteria set forth in paragraphs (1) and
(2) of section 403(a) of such Act, as amended by this Act, 
shall be removed from the inventory.
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