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[H.R. 7283 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 339
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7283

                          [Report No. 117-435]

  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain 
  activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
                     Fund, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2022

Mr. Cartwright (for himself and Mr. McKinley) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                             July 26, 2022

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Trone, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, 
  Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Porter, Mr. Lamb, Mrs. 
Bustos, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Raskin, Ms. DeGette, and Mr. 
                                Griffith

                             July 26, 2022

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                               30, 2022]


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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain 
  activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
                     Fund, 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 ``Safeguarding Treatment for the 
Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act'' or the ``STREAM 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR GRANTS FROM THE ABANDONED MINE 
              RECLAMATION FUND.

    Section 40701(c) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (30 
U.S.C. 1231a(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Grants under'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
        grants under''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Acid mine drainage abatement and treatment.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not more than 30 percent of the 
                total amount of a grant made annually under subsection 
                (b)(1) may be retained by the recipient of the grant, 
                if those amounts are deposited into an acid mine 
                drainage abatement and treatment fund established under 
                State law, from which amounts (together with all 
                interest earned on the amounts) are expended by the 
                State for the abatement of the causes and the treatment 
                of the effects of acid mine drainage resulting from 
                coal mining practices, including for the costs of 
                building, operating, maintaining, and rehabilitating 
                acid mine drainage treatment systems.
                    ``(B) Reporting requirements.--Each recipient of a 
                grant under subsection (b)(1) that deposits grant 
                amounts into an acid mine drainage abatement and 
                treatment fund under subparagraph (A) shall--
                            ``(i) offer amendments to the inventory 
                        maintained under section 403(c) of the Surface 
                        Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 
                        U.S.C. 1233(c)) to reflect the use of the 
                        amounts for acid mine drainage abatement and 
                        treatment; and
                            ``(ii) include in the annual grant report 
                        of the recipient information on the status and 
                        balance of amounts in the acid mine drainage 
                        abatement and treatment fund.
                    ``(C) Term.--Amounts retained under subparagraph 
                (A) shall not be subject to--
                            ``(i) subsection (d)(4)(B); or
                            ``(ii) any other limitation on the length 
                        of the term of an annual grant under subsection 
                        (b)(1).''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 339

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 7283

                          [Report No. 117-435]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain 
  activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
                     Fund, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 26, 2022

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed