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INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 292
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-139
MINING SCHOOLS ACT OF 2023
DECEMBER 18, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 912]
[Including Cost Estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 912), to require the Secretary of Energy to pro-
vide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 912 is to require the Secretary of Energy to
provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
S. 912 directs the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Director of the United
States Geological Survey), to establish a grant program to strength-
en domestic mining education by awarding competitive grants to el-
igible mining schools for the purpose of recruiting qualified profes-
sionals to meet future energy and mineral needs. The bill also es-
tablishes the Mining Professional Development Advisory Board,
which would be composed of 6 members, 3 with experience in the
mining industry and 3 with experience in academia in the mining
sector, each to serve for a term of 4 years. The purpose of the
Board is to evaluate grant applications and provide recommenda-
tions for selections to the Secretary, to propose funding amounts,
and perform oversight of the program. The bill allows for up to 10
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