3.0.0 3045 2026-04-09T19:51:27Z 2026-04-09T19:51:27Z Senate S S 2025-10-23 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3045 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-10-23T16:47:14Z 2025-10-23 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2025-10-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000571 Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] Cynthia Lummis R WY M. N B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2025-10-23 True Environmental Protection Environmental Protection 2025-12-04T18:15:31Z 00 2025-10-23 Introduced in Senate 2026-04-09T19:50:54Z Combating Obstruction Against Leasing Act of 2025 or the COAL Act of 2025

This bill requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to process certain pending applications to lease coal mineral estates owned by the federal government in order to develop coal.

If the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 has commenced for an application, then the BLM must publish a draft environmental assessment and any applicable implementing regulations, finalize the fair market value of the coal tract for which a lease by application is pending, take all intermediate actions necessary to grant the application, and grant the application.

With respect to previously awarded coal leases, the BLM must grant any additional approvals required for mining activities to commence.

Finally, the bill nullifies the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3338, which placed a hold on most new federal coal leases until the BLM completes a comprehensive review of the federal coal program.

]]> COAL Act of 2025 Display Title 45 COAL Act of 2025 2025-10-29T06:08:16Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 COAL Act of 2025 2025-10-29T06:08:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Combating Obstruction Against Leasing Act of 2025 2025-10-29T06:08:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to take certain actions with respect to certain qualified coal applications, and for other purposes. 2025-10-29T06:03:20Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-10-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s3045is/xml/BILLS-119s3045is.xml 2025-10-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.