[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4002 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4002

To amend section 410 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
   of 1977 to prohibit the limitation of appropriations on emergency 
     reclamation projects in any one State, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1994

  Mr. Rogers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 410 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
   of 1977 to prohibit the limitation of appropriations on emergency 
     reclamation projects in any one State, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY RECLAMATION PROJECTS.

    Section 410 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end 
thereof:
    ``(c) Limitations on Amounts Available for Single State 
Prohibited.--No limitation may be established on the sums available for 
emergency reclamation projects under this section to be carried out in 
any one State, and upon the enactment of this subsection, any such 
limitation established in any law enacted before the date of enactment 
of this subsection shall cease to have any force and effect.''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR EMERGENCY ABANDONED MINE 
              RECLAMATION PROJECTS.

    For an additional amount for ``Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund'', for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1994, for the emergency program authorized by 
section 410 of Public Law 95-87, as amended, in the State of Kentucky, 
there is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to be derived from receipts of 
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain available until 
expended.

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