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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9618 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 20, 2022 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to 
make certain activities eligible for grants from the Aban-
doned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Treat-
ment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned 
Mines Act’’ or the ‘‘STREAM Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LONG-TERM ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMA-
TION. 
Section 40701(c) of the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act (30 U.S.C. 1231a(c)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Grants under’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), grants under’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) LONG-TERM ABANDONED MINE LAND REC-
LAMATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not more than 30 
percent of the total amount of a grant made 
annually under subsection (b)(1) may be re-
tained by the recipient of the grant if those 
amounts are deposited into a long-term aban-
doned mine land reclamation fund established 
under State law, from which amounts (together 
with all interest earned on the amounts) are ex-
pended by the State or Indian Tribe, as appli-
cable, for— 
‘‘(i) the abatement of the causes and 
the treatment of the effects of acid mine 
drainage resulting from coal mining prac-
tices, including for the costs of building, 
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operating, maintaining, and rehabilitating 
acid mine drainage treatment systems; 
‘‘(ii) the prevention, abatement, and 
control of subsidence; or 
‘‘(iii) the prevention, abatement, and 
control of coal mine fires. 
‘‘(B) REPORTING
REQUIREMENTS.—Each 
recipient of a grant under subsection (b)(1) 
that deposits grant amounts into a long-term 
abandoned mine land reclamation fund under 
subparagraph (A) shall— 
‘‘(i) offer amendments to the inven-
tory maintained under section 403(c) of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclama-
tion Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(c)) to 
reflect the use of the amounts for— 
‘‘(I) acid mine drainage abate-
ment and treatment; 
‘‘(II) 
subsidence 
prevention, 
abatement, and control; and 
‘‘(III) coal mine fire prevention, 
abatement, and control; and 
‘‘(ii) include in the annual grant re-
port of the recipient information on the 
status and balance of amounts in the long- 
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term abandoned mine land reclamation 
fund. 
‘‘(C) TERM.—Amounts retained under 
subparagraph (A) shall not be subject to— 
‘‘(i) subsection (d)(4)(B); or 
‘‘(ii) any other limitation on the 
length of the term of an annual grant 
under subsection (b)(1).’’. 
Æ 
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