[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1778 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1778

 To provide that an order by the Secretary of the Interior imposing a 
moratorium on Federal coal leasing shall not take effect unless a joint 
       resolution of approval is enacted, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2017

 Ms. Cheney (for herself, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. McKinley, and 
 Mr. Rothfus) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that an order by the Secretary of the Interior imposing a 
moratorium on Federal coal leasing shall not take effect unless a joint 
       resolution of approval is enacted, 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. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR ORDER BY SECRETARY OF THE 
              INTERIOR IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL COAL LEASING.

    An order by the Secretary of the Interior imposing a moratorium on 
Federal coal leasing shall have no force or effect unless--
            (1) the Secretary submits to Congress the proposed order; 
        and
            (2) a joint resolution that approves the order is enacted 
        within 30 legislative days after the proposed order is received 
        by Congress.
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