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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-435
SAFEGUARDING TREATMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF
ECOSYSTEMS FROM ABANDONED MINES ACT
JULY 26, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 7283]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 7283) to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Act to make certain activities eligible for grants from the Aban-
doned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Eco-
systems from Abandoned Mines Act or the STREAM Act.
SEC. 2. ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR GRANTS FROM THE ABANDONED MINE REC-
LAMATION FUND.
Section 40701(c) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (30 U.S.C.
1231a(c)) is amended-
(1) by striking Grants under and inserting the following:
(1) IN GENERAL.-Except as provided in paragraph (2), grants under; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
(2) ACID MINE DRAINAGE ABATEMENT AND TREATMENT.-
(A) IN GENERAL.-Not more than 30 percent of the total amount of a
grant made annually under subsection (b)(1) may be retained by the recipi-
ent of the grant, if those amounts are deposited into an acid mine drainage
abatement and treatment fund established under State law, from which
amounts (together with all interest earned on the amounts) are expended
by the State for the abatement of the causes and the treatment of the ef-
fects of acid mine drainage resulting from coal mining practices, including
for the costs of building, operating, maintaining, and rehabilitating acid
mine drainage treatment systems.
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