Industrial Mineral Parity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-844
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2019-01-29
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Coal

Licensing and registrations

Mining

Water quality
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Industrial Mineral Parity Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill allows industrial mineral remining operations to obtain modified permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System to discharge certain pollutants into waters of the United States if pollution treatment requirements are met. The term <i>industrial minerals</i> means limestone, clay, sand, gravel, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite, silica, barite, gypsum, or talc. Currently, modified permits are limited to discharges from coal remining operations.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 844 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 29, 2019 Mr. Gibbs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to allow for modified permits for industrial minerals remining operations, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Industrial Mineral Parity Act of 2019 . 2. Modified Permit for Remining Operations (a) In general Section 301(p)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1311(p)(1) ) is amended by striking coal . (b) Limitations Section 301(p)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1311(p)(2) ) is amended by striking coal each place it appears. (c) Definitions Section 301(p)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1311(p)(3) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (D) and (F), respectively; (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: (B) Industrial mineral The term industrial mineral means limestone, clay, sand, gravel, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite, silica, barite, gypsum, or talc. (C) Industrial minerals remining operation The term industrial minerals remining operation means an industrial minerals mining operation that begins after the date of the enactment of the Industrial Mineral Parity Act of 2019 at a site on which coal mining was conducted before the effective date of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. ; (3) in subparagraph (D), as so redesignated, by striking coal remining and inserting remining ; and (4) by inserting after subparagraph (D), as so redesignated, the following: (E) Remining operation The term remining operation means a coal remining operation or an industrial minerals remining operation. . (d) Applicability of strip mining laws Section 301(p)(4) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1311(p)(4) ) is amended by striking coal . (e) Conforming amendment Section 301(p) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1311(p) ) is amended in the subsection heading by striking coal .