STREAM Act

Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act or the STREAM Act

This bill allows a state to set aside up to 30% of its annual grant for abandoned mine reclamation provided under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the treatment and abatement of acid mine drainage, which is the release of acidic water from abandoned coal mines.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3957 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3957

  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain 
  activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
                     Fund, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 30, 2022

 Mr. Casey (for himself and Mr. Braun) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain 
  activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
                     Fund, 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 ``Safeguarding Treatment for the 
Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act'' or the ``STREAM 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACTIVITIES ELIGIBLE FOR GRANTS FROM THE ABANDONED MINE 
              RECLAMATION FUND.

    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''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Acid mine drainage abatement and treatment.--
                    ``(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 grant, 
                if those amounts are deposited into an acid mine 
                drainage abatement and treatment fund established under 
                State law, from which amounts (together with all 
                interest earned on the amounts) are expended by the 
                State 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.
                    ``(B) Reporting requirements.--Each recipient of a 
                grant under subsection (b)(1) that deposits grant 
                amounts into an acid mine drainage abatement and 
                treatment fund under subparagraph (A) shall--
                            ``(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 acid mine drainage abatement and 
                        treatment; and
                            ``(ii) include in the annual grant report 
                        of the recipient information on the status and 
                        balance of amounts in the acid mine drainage 
                        abatement and treatment fund.
                    ``(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).''.
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