[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6187 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6187

 To maintain the National Coal Council in the Department of Energy to 
   provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy on 
 matters related to coal and the coal industry, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2021

   Mr. McKinley (for himself, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mrs. Miller of West 
   Virginia, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Mooney, Mr. 
  Armstrong, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Bost, Ms. 
  Cheney, and Mr. Rogers of Kentucky) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To maintain the National Coal Council in the Department of Energy to 
   provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy on 
 matters related to coal and the coal industry, 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 ``Coal Council Certainty Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL COAL COUNCIL.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy shall maintain the 
National Coal Council, in accordance with the charter for such council 
that is in effect on November 19, 2021.
    (b) Applicability of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Federal 
        Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) and section 552b(c) of 
        title 5, United States Code, shall apply to the National Coal 
        Council.
            (2) Termination.--Section 14 of the Federal Advisory 
        Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the National 
        Coal Council.
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