# 119-hr-6674: CLAIM Act of 2025

119-hr-6674, CLAIM Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6674
- Congress: 119
- Title: CLAIM Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-11
- Sponsor: Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-01

## Summary

**This bill shifts hardrock mining maintenance from labor-based assessment work to a location-based, tiered fee system and directs revenue toward conservation and restoration.** It also defines who counts as a small miner, lets the Secretary collect user fees, and requires regular inflation adjustments. - Miners: Maintenance fees act in place of the old assessment-work requirement. Fees range from $300 to $1,100 depending on how close a claim is to a protected "covered area", and qualifying small miners are exempt. - Communities and conservation: Excess fee revenue is first used to run the program and then split among priorities. The largest single share, 40%, goes to programs under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with remaining funds for Tribal Historic Preservation, States, and national conservation and park restoration funds. - Administration and rules: The Secretary centralizes authority, may charge user fees to cover administrative costs, and must adjust fees for inflation at least every 5 years with notice by July 1. *Revenues are redirected to mining administration and a set of conservation and restoration programs through a new allocation formula.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Small miner fee exemption rules: benefit, high. This bill would create a "small miner" classification and exempt qualifying small miners from the yearly claim maintenance fees and from doing assessment work. To qualify you would need no more than 10 claims or sites, no more than 200 acres of Federal land, and prior-year aggregate gross income fr…
- Tiered yearly fees by location: mixed, medium. If you hold a mining claim on Federal land, this bill would make you pay a yearly fee for each claim based on where most of the claim lies. Fees would be $1,100 if most of the claim is inside a covered area; $1,000 if 0–10 miles from the boundary; $700 if 10–20 miles; $500 if 20–30 miles; and $300…
- Definitions that limit mining activity: mixed, low. This bill would add definitions used across the mining rules. "Casual use" would mean low-impact activities like hand tool specimen collection, hand panning, or nonmotorized sluicing and would exclude mechanized earth-moving, suction dredging, explosives, motor vehicle use in closed areas, road or…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
- 119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-hr-6674 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6674)

## Related
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10421)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
- [119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3069)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6674 (as of 2026-08-01).