H.R. 167
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025
In Plain Language
This bill updates the program that cleans up old coal mines abandoned before 1977. It lets states work with federal agencies and community groups to fix polluted water and land at these abandoned mine sites through 2032. Community groups can partner with states on cleanup projects if they didn't cause the damage and don't have permit violations.
Official Congressional Research Service summary
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025This bill revises the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, which restores land and water adversely impacted by surface coal mines that were abandoned before August 3, 1977.Until September 30, 2032, the bill allows a state with an approved reclamation program to enter into a memorandum of understanding with relevant federal or state agencies for remediating mine drainage on abandoned mine land and water impacted by abandoned mines.In addition, the bill authorizes a partnership between a state and a community reclaimer for remediating abandoned mine land if certain conditions are met. A community reclaimer is a person who (1) voluntarily assists a state in a reclamation project, (2) did not participate in the creation of site conditions at the proposed site or activities that caused any land or waters at the site to become eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures, and (3) is not subject to outstanding violations of surface coal mining permits.
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
May 14, 2025
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