Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 167

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2025

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

                                 AN ACT

 
  To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to 
authorize partnerships between States and nongovernmental entities for 
   the purpose of reclaiming and restoring land and water resources 
adversely affected by coal mining activities before August 3, 1977, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Reclamation Partnerships 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. REFERENCE.

    Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this Act an 
amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment to a provision, the 
reference shall be considered to be made to a provision of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.).

SEC. 3. STATE MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING FOR CERTAIN REMEDIATION.

    Section 405 (30 U.S.C. 1235) is amended by inserting after 
subsection (l) the following:
    ``(m) State Memoranda of Understanding for Remediation of Mine 
Drainage.--
            ``(1) In general.--A State with a State program approved 
        under subsection (d) may enter into a memorandum of 
        understanding with relevant Federal or State agencies (or both) 
        to remediate mine drainage on abandoned mine land and water 
        impacted by abandoned mines within the State. The memorandum 
        may be updated as necessary and resubmitted for approval under 
        this subsection.
            ``(2) Memoranda requirements.--Such memorandum shall 
        establish a strategy satisfactory to the State and Federal 
        agencies that are parties to the memorandum, to address water 
        pollution resulting from mine drainage at sites eligible for 
        reclamation and mine drainage abatement expenditures under 
        section 404, including specific procedures for--
                    ``(A) ensuring that activities carried out to 
                address mine drainage will result in improved water 
                quality;
                    ``(B) monitoring, sampling, and the reporting of 
                collected information as necessary to achieve the 
                condition required under subparagraph (A);
                    ``(C) operation and maintenance of treatment 
                systems as necessary to achieve the condition required 
                under subparagraph (A); and
                    ``(D) other purposes, as considered necessary by 
                the State or Federal agencies, to achieve the condition 
                required under subpara…