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13 118THCONGRESS
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35 DSESSION H. R. 2925
4-AN ACT
6+To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to provide for
7+security of tenure for use of mining claims for ancillary activities, and
8+for other purposes.
9+IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10+APRIL27, 2023
11+Mr. A
12+MODEI(for himself and Mrs. PELTOLA) introduced the following bill;
13+which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
14+M
15+ARCH7, 2024
16+Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
17+House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
18+[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
19+MAY1, 2024
20+Recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources
21+[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 27, 2023]
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25+A BILL
526 To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993
627 to provide for security of tenure for use of mining claims
728 for ancillary activities, and for other purposes.
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832 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
9-tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2
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11-SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
12-This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mining Regulatory 2
13-Clarity Act of 2024’’. 3
14-SEC. 2. USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVI-4
15-TIES. 5
16-Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 6
17-Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended by adding at the 7
18-end the following: 8
33+tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
34+SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
35+This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mining Regulatory Clar-4
36+ity Act of 2024’’. 5
37+SEC. 2. USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVI-6
38+TIES. 7
39+Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 8
40+Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended by adding at the 9
41+end the following: 10
1942 ‘‘(e) S
20-ECURITY OFTENURE.— 9
43+ECURITY OFTENURE.— 11
2144 ‘‘(1) C
22-LAIMANT RIGHTS.— 10
45+LAIMANT RIGHTS.— 12
2346 ‘‘(A) D
24-EFINITION OF OPERATIONS .—In 11
25-this paragraph, the term ‘operations’ means— 12
26-‘‘(i) with respect to a locatable min-13
27-eral, any activity or work carried out in 14
28-connection with— 15
29-‘‘(I) prospecting; 16
30-‘‘(II) exploration; 17
31-‘‘(III) discovery and assessment; 18
32-‘‘(IV) development; 19
33-‘‘(V) extraction; or 20
34-‘‘(VI) processing; 21
35-‘‘(ii) the reclamation of an area dis-22
36-turbed by an activity described in clause 23
37-(i); and 24
38-‘‘(iii) any activity reasonably incident 25
39-to an activity described in clause (i) or (ii), 26 3
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41-regardless of whether that incidental activ-1
42-ity is carried out on a mining claim, in-2
43-cluding the construction and maintenance 3
44-of any road, transmission line, pipeline, or 4
45-any other necessary infrastructure or 5
46-means of access on public land for a sup-6
47-port facility. 7
47+EFINITION OF OPERATIONS.—In this 13
48+paragraph, the term ‘operations’ means— 14
49+‘‘(i) with respect to a locatable min-15
50+eral, any activity or work carried out in 16
51+connection with— 17
52+‘‘(I) prospecting; 18
53+‘‘(II) exploration; 19
54+‘‘(III) discovery and assessment; 20
55+‘‘(IV) development; 21
56+‘‘(V) extraction; or 22
57+‘‘(VI) processing; 23
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61+‘‘(ii) the reclamation of an area dis-1
62+turbed by an activity described in clause 2
63+(i); and 3
64+‘‘(iii) any activity reasonably incident 4
65+to an activity described in clause (i) or (ii), 5
66+regardless of whether that incidental activ-6
67+ity is carried out on a mining claim, in-7
68+cluding the construction and maintenance 8
69+of any road, transmission line, pipeline, or 9
70+any other necessary infrastructure or means 10
71+of access on public land for a support facil-11
72+ity. 12
4873 ‘‘(B) R
49-IGHTS TO USE, OCCUPATION, AND 8
50-OPERATIONS.—A claimant shall have the right 9
51-to use and occupy to conduct operations on 10
52-public land, with or without the discovery of a 11
53-valuable mineral deposit, if— 12
54-‘‘(i) the claimant makes a timely pay-13
55-ment of— 14
56-‘‘(I) the location fee required by 15
57-section 10102; and 16
58-‘‘(II) the claim maintenance fee 17
59-required by subsection (a); or 18
60-‘‘(ii) in the case of a claimant who 19
61-qualifies for a waiver of the claim mainte-20
62-nance fee under subsection (d)— 21
63-‘‘(I) the claimant makes a timely 22
64-payment of the location fee required 23
65-by section 10102; and 24 4
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67-‘‘(II) the claimant complies with 1
68-the required assessment work under 2
69-the general mining laws. 3
74+IGHTS TO USE, OCCUPATION, AND OP-13
75+ERATIONS.—A claimant shall have the right to 14
76+use and occupy to conduct operations on public 15
77+land, with or without the discovery of a valuable 16
78+mineral deposit, if— 17
79+‘‘(i) the claimant makes a timely pay-18
80+ment of— 19
81+‘‘(I) the location fee required by 20
82+section 10102; and 21
83+‘‘(II) the claim maintenance fee 22
84+required by subsection (a); or 23
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88+‘‘(ii) in the case of a claimant who 1
89+qualifies for a waiver of the claim mainte-2
90+nance fee under subsection (d)— 3
91+‘‘(I) the claimant makes a timely 4
92+payment of the location fee required by 5
93+section 10102; and 6
94+‘‘(II) the claimant complies with 7
95+the required assessment work under the 8
96+general mining laws. 9
7097 ‘‘(2) F
71-ULFILLMENT OF FEDERAL LAND POLICY 4
72-AND MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1976 .—A claimant that 5
73-fulfills the requirements of this section and section 6
74-10102 shall be deemed to satisfy any requirements 7
75-under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 8
76-of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) for the payment 9
77-of fair market value to the United States for the use 10
78-of public land and resources pursuant to the general 11
79-mining laws. 12
98+ULFILLMENT OF FEDERAL LAND POLICY 10
99+AND MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1976 .—A claimant that ful-11
100+fills the requirements of this section and section 10102 12
101+shall be deemed to satisfy any requirements under the 13
102+Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 14
103+(43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) for the payment of fair mar-15
104+ket value to the United States for the use of public 16
105+land and resources pursuant to the general mining 17
106+laws. 18
80107 ‘‘(3) S
81-AVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this sub-13
82-section— 14
83-‘‘(A) diminishes any right (including a 15
84-right of entry, use, or occupancy) of a claimant; 16
85-‘‘(B) creates or increases any right (includ-17
86-ing a right of exploration, entry, use, or occu-18
87-pancy) of a claimant on lands that are not open 19
88-to location under the general mining laws; 20
89-‘‘(C) modifies any provision of law or any 21
90-prior administrative action withdrawing lands 22
91-from location or entry; 23
92-‘‘(D) limits the right of the Federal Gov-24
93-ernment to regulate mining and mining-related 25 5
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95-activities (including requiring claim validity ex-1
96-aminations to establish the discovery of a valu-2
97-able mineral deposit) in areas withdrawn from 3
98-mining (including under— 4
99-‘‘(i) the general mining laws; 5
100-‘‘(ii) the Federal Land Policy and 6
101-Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 7
102-et seq.); 8
103-‘‘(iii) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 9
104-1131 et seq.); 10
105-‘‘(iv) sections 100731 through 100737 11
106-of title 54, United States Code (commonly 12
107-referred to as the ‘Mining in the Parks 13
108-Act’); 14
109-‘‘(v) the Endangered Species Act of 15
110-1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); or 16
111-‘‘(vi) division A of subtitle III of title 17
112-54, United States Code (commonly re-18
113-ferred to as the ‘National Historic Preser-19
114-vation Act’)); or 20
115-‘‘(E) restores any right (including a right 21
116-of entry, use, or occupancy, or right to conduct 22
117-operations) of a claimant that existed prior to 23
118-the date that the lands were closed to or with-24
119-drawn from location under the general mining 25 6
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121-laws and that has been extinguished by such 1
122-closure or withdrawal.’’. 2
123-Passed the House of Representatives May 8, 2024.
124-Attest:
125-Clerk. 118
108+AVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this sub-19
109+section— 20
110+‘‘(A) diminishes any right (including a 21
111+right of entry, use, or occupancy) of a claimant; 22
112+‘‘(B) creates or increases any right (includ-23
113+ing a right of exploration, entry, use, or occu-24
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117+pancy) of a claimant on lands that are not open 1
118+to location under the general mining laws; 2
119+‘‘(C) modifies any provision of law or any 3
120+prior administrative action withdrawing lands 4
121+from location or entry; 5
122+‘‘(D) limits the right of the Federal Govern-6
123+ment to regulate mining and mining-related ac-7
124+tivities (including requiring claim validity ex-8
125+aminations to establish the discovery of a valu-9
126+able mineral deposit) in areas withdrawn from 10
127+mining (including under— 11
128+‘‘(i) the general mining laws; 12
129+‘‘(ii) the Federal Land Policy and 13
130+Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 14
131+seq.); 15
132+‘‘(iii) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 16
133+1131 et seq.); 17
134+‘‘(iv) sections 100731 through 100737 18
135+of title 54, United States Code (commonly 19
136+referred to as the ‘Mining in the Parks 20
137+Act’); 21
138+‘‘(v) the Endangered Species Act of 22
139+1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); or 23
140+‘‘(vi) division A of subtitle III of title 24
141+54, United States Code (commonly referred 25
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145+to as the ‘National Historic Preservation 1
146+Act’)); or 2
147+‘‘(E) restores any right (including a right of 3
148+entry, use, or occupancy, or right to conduct op-4
149+erations) of a claimant that existed prior to the 5
150+date that the lands were closed to or withdrawn 6
151+from location under the general mining laws and 7
152+that has been extinguished by such closure or 8
153+withdrawal.’’. 9
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126156 TH
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130160 S
131161 ESSION
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133-H. R. 2925
134-AN ACT
163+H. R. 2925 A BILL
135164 To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
136165 of 1993 to provide for security of tenure for use
137166 of mining claims for ancillary activities, and for
138167 other purposes.
168+M
169+AY
170+2, 2024
171+Recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources
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