[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 195 (Thursday, December 15, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S7264]
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  SA 6542. Mr. KING (for Mr. Barrasso) proposed an amendment to the 
bill S. 3957, 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; as follows:

        Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     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. LONG-TERM ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION.

       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) Long-term abandoned mine land reclamation.--
       ``(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 a long-term abandoned mine land 
     reclamation fund established under State law, from which 
     amounts (together with all interest earned on the amounts) 
     are expended by the State or Indian Tribe, as applicable, 
     for--
       ``(i) 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;
       ``(ii) the prevention, abatement, and control of 
     subsidence; or
       ``(iii) the prevention, abatement, and control of coal mine 
     fires.
       ``(B) Reporting requirements.--Each recipient of a grant 
     under subsection (b)(1) that deposits grant amounts into a 
     long-term abandoned mine land reclamation 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--

       ``(I) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment;
       ``(II) subsidence prevention, abatement, and control; and
       ``(III) coal mine fire prevention, abatement, and control; 
     and

       ``(ii) include in the annual grant report of the recipient 
     information on the status and balance of amounts in the long-
     term abandoned mine land reclamation 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).''.
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