I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2402 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right 
lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative com-
mercial quantities determination, to substitute certain land selections 
of the Navajo Nation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 8, 2017 
Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico (for himself, Ms. CHENEY, Mr. LAM-
BORN, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. O’HALLERAN, and Mr. COMER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal 
preference right lease applications for which the Sec-
retary has made an affirmative commercial quantities 
determination, to substitute certain land selections of 
the Navajo Nation, 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 ‘‘San Juan County Set-
tlement Implementation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXCHANGE OF COAL PREFERENCE RIGHT LEASE 
APPLICATIONS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BIDDING RIGHT.—The term ‘‘bidding right’’ 
means an appropriate legal instrument or other writ-
ten documentation, including an entry in an account 
managed by the Secretary, issued or created under 
subpart 3435 of title 43, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, that may be used— 
(A) in lieu of a monetary payment for 50 
percent of a bonus bid for a coal lease sale 
under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 
et seq.); or 
(B) as a monetary credit against 50 per-
cent of any rental or royalty payments due 
under any Federal coal lease. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(b) USE OF BIDDING RIGHT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary retires a 
coal preference right lease application under the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) by 
issuing a bidding right in exchange for the relin-
quishment of the coal preference right lease applica-
tion, the bidding right subsequently may be used in 
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lieu of 50 percent of the amount owed for any mone-
tary payment of— 
(A) a bonus in a coal lease sale; or 
(B) rental or royalty under a Federal coal 
lease. 
(2) PAYMENT CALCULATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cal-
culate a payment of amounts owed to a relevant 
State under section 35(a) of the Mineral Leas-
ing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(a)) based on the com-
bined value of the bidding rights and amounts 
received. 
(B) AMOUNTS RECEIVED.—Except as pro-
vided in this subsection, for purposes of calcu-
lating the payment of amounts owed to a rel-
evant State under subparagraph (A) only, a 
bidding right shall be considered amounts re-
ceived. 
(c) SOURCE
OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall 
make payments to the relevant State under subsection (b) 
from monetary payments received by the Secretary when 
bidding rights are exercised under this Act. 
(d) TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS.—A payment to a 
State under this section shall be treated as a payment 
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