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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-455
AMERICAN SODA ASH COMPETITIVENESS ACT
DECEMBER 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1399]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1399) to reduce temporarily the royalty required to be
paid for sodium produced on Federal lands, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon without
amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1399 is to reduce temporarily the royalty re-
quired to be made for sodium produced on Federal lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Soda ash (sodium carbonate) is primarily used for glass-making,
which consumes about half of soda ash output. Another quarter is
used by the chemical industry. Other uses include soap, paper
manufacturing and water treatment. In the United States, soda
ash is refined from trona, a naturally occurring mineral, or from
naturally occurring sodium-carbonate bearing brines. China makes
a synthetic soda ash that requires more energy and uses a less en-
vironmentally-friendly process.
Soda ash is regulated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.),
under which a royalty is assessed on refined soda ash and trona.
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