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Union Calendar No. 339 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7283 
[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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
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] 
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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. 
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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 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— 
(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) ACID
MINE
DRAINAGE
ABATEMENT
AND 
TREATMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not more than 30 per-
cent of the total amount of a grant made annu-
ally 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 
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State for the abatement of the causes and the 
treatment of the effects of acid mine drainage re-
sulting 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 drain-
age abatement and treatment fund under sub-
paragraph (A) shall— 
‘‘(i) offer amendments to the inventory 
maintained under section 403(c) of the Sur-
face 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 
‘‘(ii) include in the annual grant re-
port of the recipient information on the sta-
tus and balance of amounts in the acid 
mine drainage abatement and treatment 
fund. 
‘‘(C) TERM.—Amounts retained under sub-
paragraph (A) shall not be subject to— 
‘‘(i) subsection (d)(4)(B); or 
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‘‘(ii) any other limitation on the length 
of the term of an annual grant under sub-
section (b)(1).’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 339 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7283 
[Report No. 117–435] 
A BILL 
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 Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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