[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5206-S5207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2931. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle H of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SECTION 10_____. REINSTATEMENT OF THE BULL MOUNTAINS MINING 
                   PLAN MODIFICATION.

       (a) Definition of Bull Mountains Mining Plan 
     Modification.--In this section, the term ``Bull Mountains 
     Mining Plan Modification'' means Amendment 3, Bull Mountains 
     Mine No. 1, Mining Plan Modification for Federal Coal Lease 
     MTM 97988, that was--
       (1) analyzed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
     and Enforcement Environmental Assessment, dated May 11, 2018;
       (2) approved by the Department of the Interior Assistant 
     Secretary for Land and Minerals Management on August 3, 2018;
       (3) further analyzed in the Office of Surface Mining 
     Reclamation and Enforcement Environmental Assessment, dated 
     October 2020; and
       (4) affirmed by Department of the Interior Principal Deputy 
     Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management in a 
     concurrence memorandum, dated November 18, 2020.
       (b) Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification 
     Reinstatement.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall, 
     without modification or delay, reinstate the Bull Mountains 
     Mining Plan Modification.
       (2) Duration.--On reinstatement under paragraph (1), the 
     Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification shall remain in 
     effect and

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     operational until mining under the Bull Mountains Mining Plan 
     Modification is complete, as determined by the Montana 
     Department of Environmental Quality.
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