[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2040 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2040

    To exclude the receipts and disbursements of the Abandoned Mine 
 Reclamation Fund from the budget of the United States Government, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 8, 2000

  Mr. Bunning introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the 
 Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with instructions 
that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to 
                        report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
    To exclude the receipts and disbursements of the Abandoned Mine 
 Reclamation Fund from the budget of the United States Government, 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. ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND.

    (a) Exclusion From Budget.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the receipts and disbursements of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
Fund shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, 
or deficit or surplus for purposes of--
            (1) the budget of the United States Government as submitted 
        by the President;
            (2) the congressional budget; or
            (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
        of 1985.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--Section 401(d) of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1231(d)) is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(d) All amounts in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall 
be immediately available for obligation or expenditure, without further 
appropriation, for the purposes of this title at the commencement of 
the next fiscal year.''.
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