[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2187 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2187


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            December 19 (legislative day, December 18), 2001

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to make receipts collected from 
    mineral leasing activities on certain naval oil shale reserves 
  available to cover environmental restoration, waste management, and 
   environmental compliance costs incurred by the United States with 
                        respect to the reserves.

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

SECTION 1. USE OF RECEIPTS FROM MINERAL LEASING ACTIVITIES ON CERTAIN 
              NAVAL OIL SHALE RESERVES.

    Section 7439 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (f)(1), by striking the second sentence; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Use of Receipts.--(1) The Secretary of the Interior may use, 
without further appropriation, not more than $1,500,000 of the moneys 
covered into the Treasury under subsection (f)(1) to cover the cost of 
any additional analysis, site characterization, and geotechnical 
studies deemed necessary by the Secretary to support environmental 
restoration, waste management, or environmental compliance with respect 
to Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 3. Upon the completion of such studies, 
the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress a report 
containing--
            ``(A) the results and conclusions of such studies; and
            ``(B) an estimate of the total cost of the Secretary's 
        preferred alternative to address environmental restoration, 
        waste management, and environmental compliance needs at Oil 
        Shale Reserve Numbered 3.
    ``(2) If the cost estimate required by paragraph (1)(B) does not 
exceed the total of the moneys covered into the Treasury under 
subsection (f)(1) and remaining available for obligation as of the date 
of submission of the report under paragraph (1), the Secretary of the 
Interior may access such moneys, beginning 60 days after submission of 
the report and without further appropriation, to cover the costs of 
implementing the preferred alternative to address environmental 
restoration, waste management, and environmental compliance needs at 
Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 3. If the cost estimate exceeds such 
available moneys, the Secretary of the Interior may only access such 
moneys as authorized by subsequent Act of Congress.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 18, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.