[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 464]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

      By Mr. BUNNING:
  S. 1908. A bill to exclude the receipts and disbursements of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund from the budget of the United States 
Government, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Budget and 
the Committee on Governmental Affairs, jointly, pursuant to the order 
of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one committee reports, the 
other committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.
  Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 1908

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND.

       (a) Exclusion From Budget.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the receipts and disbursements of the 
     Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund shall not be counted as new 
     budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus 
     for purposes of--
       (1) the budget of the United States Government as submitted 
     by the President;
       (2) the congressional budget; or
       (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
     of 1985.
       (b) Availability of Funds.--Section 401(d) of the Surface 
     Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
     1231(d)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(d) All amounts in the fund at the end of any fiscal year 
     shall be immediately available for obligation or expenditure, 
     without further appropriation, for the purposes of this title 
     at the commencement of the next fiscal year.''.

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