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114TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 114-658
MINING SCHOOLS ENHANCEMENT ACT
JULY 5, 2016.-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
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3734]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3734) to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclama-
tion Act of 1977 to provide support to mining schools, 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. 3734 is to amend the Surface Mining Con-
trol and Reclamation Act of 1977 to provide support to mining
schools.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Within the next 10 to 15 years, approximately 70 percent of the
United States' mining industry's technical leaders will reach retire-
ment age. The National Research Council (NRC) identified this
aging demographic within the mining sector as the most critical
issue facing the workforce, and highlighted the paucity of can-
didates to replace the retiring workforce in the mining-related
faculty at institutions of higher knowledge. Evidencing this is the
decrease in the number of accredited mining and mineral engineer-
ing programs, which has fallen from 25 in 1982 to 14 in 2007, and
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