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S 3175 111th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative remedies Department of the Interior Mining User charges and fees

A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60…

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A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 25, 2010 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Mar 25, 2010
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 25, 2010
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2119-2120)
Mar 25, 2010
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 regarding waivers of small miner claim maintenance fees to extend the allowance of a certain period to cure a defect in the waiver application to a failure to timely file either a waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.

Considers specified claimholder claims as: (1) having received a first half final certificate for application before September 30, 1994; and/or (2) qualifying for specified relief under the Act, including opportunity to cure.

What's happening now March 25, 2010

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3175: A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-3175/
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"S. 3175: A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-3175/.
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S. 3175, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-3175/.
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[S. 3175: A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-3175/)
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