[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3430 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3430

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2021

  Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cramer, Mr. 
 Daines, Mr. Lankford, and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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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 relating 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 the National 
Coal Council (as filed with Congress 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.) 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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