To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-334
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-13
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Department of the Interior

Mining

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to give small miners 60 days to remedy their failure to timely file either a small miner's maintenance fee waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.</p> <p>Specified claimholders are considered to: (1) have received a first half final certificate for the application associated with their claims before September 30, 1994, and (2) qualify for the opportunity to cure the defects or pay the fee under this Act. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 334 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 13, 2015 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

1. Small miner waivers to claim maintenance fees (a) In general Section 10101(d)(3) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ( 30 U.S.C. 28f(d)(3) ) is amended by striking for any reason, the claimant shall have a period of 60 days after receipt of written notification of the defect or defects by the Bureau of Land Management to: and inserting for any reason (including the failure to timely file a small miner’s maintenance fee waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and required application fees), the claimant shall have a period of 60 days after receipt of written notification of the 1 or more defects provided by the Bureau of Land Management by registered mail to . (b) Transition rules The claimholder of claims numbered AA023149, AA023163, AA047913, AA047914, AA047915, AA047916, AA047917, AA047918, and AA047919 (as of December 29, 2004) shall be considered— (1) to have received a first half final certificate for application AA072648 (associated with the claims) before September 30, 1994; and (2) to qualify for relief under section 10101(d)(3) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ( 30 U.S.C. 28f(d)(3) ) and have the opportunity to cure under that section for any prior period for which 1 or more defects existed or there was a failure to pay claim maintenance fees.