person (other than the remediating party and any 
cooperating parties) with respect to the remediation 
plan for a permit approved or modified, or both, 
under this subsection. 
‘‘(10) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Administrator, in consultation with the State of Col-
orado, tribal, and local officials and after providing 
notice, an opportunity for comment, and a hearing, 
shall issue regulations establishing generally applica-
ble requirements for remediation plans described in 
paragraph (3)(B) and such other regulations as the 
Administrator considers necessary to carry out this 
subsection 
‘‘(11) FUNDING FOR IMPLEMENTING REMEDI-
ATION PLANS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to 
be 
appropriated 
to 
the 
Administrator 
$30,000,000 to pay 85 percent of the costs of 
designing and implementing remediation plans 
for which permits are issued under this sub-
section. The remaining share of such costs may 
be provided with funds or in-kind services by 
private, local, State, or other Federal sources, 
including grants under section 319. 
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‘‘(B) PRIORITY.—The funds appropriated 
under this paragraph shall be allocated first to 
proposed remediation plans that are compara-
tively more likely than other proposed remedi-
ation plans to further the objectives of the ex-
isting total maximum daily load allocations 
under section 303(d) with respect to discharges 
from abandoned or inactive mined land. 
‘‘(12) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than the 
last day of each of the 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 10th 
years of the pilot program conducted pursuant 
to this subsection, the Administrator shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the activities car-
ried out under this subsection. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The report under sub-
paragraph (A) shall, at a minimum— 
‘‘(i) identify each permit issued under 
this subsection and associated remediating 
party; 
‘‘(ii) identify the abandoned or inac-
tive mined land addressed by each permit 
issued under this subsection (including the 
water bodies and baseline water quality of 
the water bodies affected by the land); 
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‘‘(iii) summarize the remediation plan 
associated with each permit issued under 
this subsection, including the goals and ob-
jectives of the plan, the plan budget, and 
the practices to be employed according to 
the plan to reduce, control, mitigate, or 
eliminate adverse water quality impacts on 
such water bodies; 
‘‘(iv) identify the status of the imple-
mentation of each remediation plan associ-
ated with each permit issued under this 
subsection (including specific progress that 
permitted remediation activities have made 
toward achieving the goals and objectives 
of the remediation plan); 
‘‘(v) identify and describe any enforce-
ment action taken by the Administrator or 
any civil action brought by a citizen con-
cerning a permit issued under this sub-
section (including the disposition of the 
legal action); and 
‘‘(vi) include recommendations by the 
Administrator for any modifications to this 
subsection, or regulations issued under 
paragraph (10) to implement this sub-
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section, that would facilitate the improve-
ment of water quality through remediation 
of abandoned or inactive mined land. 
‘‘(13) TERMINATION OF PERMITTING AUTHOR-
ITY.—The authority granted to the Administrator 
under this subsection to issue an abandoned or inac-
tive mined land remediation permit terminates on 
the date that is 10 years after the date of enactment 
of this subsection.’’. 
Æ 
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