[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1479 Introduced in Senate (IS)]


104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1479

  To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to 
     improve control of acid mine drainage, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 14, 1995

 Mr. Sarbanes (for himself and Ms. Mikulski) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to 
     improve control of acid mine drainage, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Acid Mine Drainage Abatement Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. ACID MINE DRAINAGE.

    Section 402(g) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (6)--
                    (A) by striking ``either'' and all that follows 
                through ``trust fund'' and inserting ``a special trust 
                fund''; and
                    (B) by striking ``1995,'' and all that follows 
                through the end of the paragraph and inserting 
                ``1995.''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (7) and inserting the following:
    ``(7)(A) Any State may receive and retain, without regard to the 3-
year limitation referred to in paragraph (1)(D), amounts up to the 
greater of $1,000,000 or 30 percent of the total of the grants made 
annually to the State under this subsection if the amounts are 
deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund 
established under State law under which the amounts (together with all 
interest earned on the amounts) are expended by the State to undertake 
acid mine drainage abatement and treatment projects.
    ``(B) A project that is funded out of an acid mine drainage 
abatement and treatment fund under subparagraph (A) shall provide for 
the abatement of the causes of the treatment of the effects of acid 
mine drainage from lands and waters that are eligible under section 
404.''.
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