Title: Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019
This bill reauthorizes the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund fees and expands the payments from the fund for abandoned coal mine cleanups.
Specifically, the bill

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4248 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4248

  To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to 
   allow the Secretary of the Interior to delegate certain emergency 
    reclamation activities to the States and Tribes, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2019

Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Michael 
 F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Ms. Jackson Lee, 
Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Ryan, and Mr. Meuser) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period 
    to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to 
   allow the Secretary of the Interior to delegate certain emergency 
    reclamation activities to the States and Tribes, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION FUND.

    Section 401(f)(2) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1231(f)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``2022'' and 
                inserting ``2037''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2022'' and substituting ``2037''; 
                and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``2023'' and 
                inserting ``2038'';
                    (B) by striking ``2023'' and substituting ``2038''; 
                and
                    (C) by striking ``2022'' and inserting ``2037''.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY POWERS.

    (a) State Reclamation Program.--Section 405(d) of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1235(d)) is 
amended by striking ``sections 402 and 410 excepted'' and inserting 
``section 402 excepted''.
    (b) Delegation.--Section 410 of the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1240) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, including through 
        reimbursement to a State or Tribal Government described in 
        subsection (c),'' after ``moneys''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) State or Tribal Government.--A State or Tribal Government is 
eligible to receive reimbursement from the Secretary under subsection 
(a) if such State or Tribal Government has submitted, and the Secretary 
has approved, an Abandoned Mine Land Emergency Program as part of an 
approved State or Tribal Reclamation Plan under section 405.''.

SEC. 4. RECLAMATION FEE.

    (a) Duration.--Effective 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, section 402(b) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(b)) is amended by striking ``September 30, 
2021'' and inserting ``September 30, 2036''.
    (b) Allocation of Funds.--Effective September 30, 2019, section 
402(g) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 
U.S.C. 1232(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking ``paragraphs (1) and 
        (5)'' inserting ``paragraphs (1), (5), and (8)'';
            (2) in paragraph (8)(A), by striking ``$3,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$5,000,000''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) From amounts withheld pursuant to the Budget Control 
        Act of 2011 (2 U.S.C. 901(a)) from payments to States under 
        title IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (30 
        U.S.C. 1232(g)) during fiscal years 2013 through 2018, the 
        Secretary shall distribute for fiscal year 2019 an amount to 
        each State equal to the total amount so withheld.''.

SEC. 5. EXEMPT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.

    Section 255(g)(1)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act (2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``Payments to States and Indian Tribes from the Abandoned 
Mine Reclamation Fund, mandatory grants to States and Indian Tribes 
(12-50q5-0-2-999).''.
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