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Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025

Introduced: January 3, 2025 Introduced by: LaHood, Darin Republican · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Passed Senate
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Became law
May 14, 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
May 13, 2025
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
May 13, 2025
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1970-1971)
May 13, 2025
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1970-1971)
May 13, 2025
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 167.
May 13, 2025
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1970-1972)
May 13, 2025
Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Jan 3, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced in House
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Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025

This 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.

What's happening now May 14, 2025

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

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 167: Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-167/
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"H.R. 167: Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-167/.
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H.R. 167, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-167/.
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