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kind: "diff"
citation: "S. 3957"
bill: "117-s-3957"
heading: "Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act"
from: "is"
from_label: "Introduced in Senate"
to: "es"
to_label: "Engrossed in Senate"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/117/s/3957/changes/es"
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# S. 3957 — what changed

S. 3957, Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act — 1 section amended between Introduced in Senate and Engrossed in Senate.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## 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”
- (2) by adding at the end the following:
  - “(2) <del>Acid </del><ins>Long-term abandoned </ins>mine <del>drainage abatement and treatment</del><ins>land reclamation</ins>
  - “(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 <del>grant, </del><ins>grant </ins>if those amounts are deposited into <del>an acid </del><ins>a long-term abandoned </ins>mine <del>drainage abatement and treatment </del><ins>land reclamation </ins>fund established under State law, from which amounts (together with all interest earned on the amounts) are expended by the State <del>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.</del><ins>or Indian Tribe, as applicable, for—</ins>
  - <del>“(B) Reporting requirements—Each recipient </del><ins>“(i) the abatement </ins>of <del>a grant under subsection (b)(1) that deposits grant amounts into an </del><ins>the causes and the treatment of the effects of </ins>acid mine drainage <del>abatement </del><ins>resulting from coal mining practices, including for the costs of building, operating, maintaining, </ins>and <ins>rehabilitating acid mine drainage </ins>treatment <del>fund under subparagraph (A) shall—</del><ins>systems;</ins>
  - <del>“(i) offer amendments to the inventory maintained under section 403(c) of </del><ins>“(ii) </ins>the <del>Surface Mining Control </del><ins>prevention, abatement, </ins>and <del>Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(c)) to reflect the use </del><ins>control </ins>of <del>the amounts for acid mine drainage abatement and treatment; and</del><ins>subsidence; or</ins>
  - <del>“(ii) include in the annual grant report of the recipient information on </del><ins>“(iii) </ins>the <del>status </del><ins>prevention, abatement, </ins>and <del>balance </del><ins>control </ins>of <del>amounts in the acid </del><ins>coal </ins>mine <del>drainage abatement and treatment fund.</del><ins>fires.</ins>
  - <ins>“(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—</ins>
  - <ins>“(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—</ins>
  - <ins>“(I) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment;</ins>
  - <ins>“(II) subsidence prevention, abatement, and control; and</ins>
  - <ins>“(III) coal mine fire prevention, abatement, and control; and</ins>
  - <ins>“(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.</ins>
  - “(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).”