§15991 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Interior Secretary must review coal studies and other data, working with the Agriculture Secretary and the other Secretary named in the law, to find which Federal lands have coal that can be developed, what limits exist on developing those lands, and, where there is enough information, how much compliant and supercompliant coal is there. Compliant coal has between 1.0 and 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu. Supercompliant coal has less than 1.0 pound of sulfur dioxide per million Btu. The Secretary must finish the inventory no later than 2 years after August 8, 2005, and update it as new data or technology make updates needed. The Secretary must send the inventory report and every update to the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and make them public, with the first report due no later than 2 years after the effective date of the section.

Title 42, §15991

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(a)(1)The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary, shall review coal assessments and other available data to identify—

(A)Federal lands with coal resources that are available for development;

(B)the extent and nature of any restrictions on the development of coal resources on Federal lands identified under paragraph (1); and

(C)with respect to areas of such lands for which sufficient data exists, resources of compliant coal and supercompliant coal.

(2)For purposes of this subsection—

(A)the term “compliant coal” means coal that contains not less than 1.0 and not more than 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu; and

(B)the term “supercompliant coal” means coal that contains less than 1.0 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu.

(b)The Secretary—

(1)shall complete the inventory under subsection (a) by not later than 2 years after August 8, 2005; and

(2)shall update the inventory as the availability of data and developments in technology warrant.

(c)The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and make publicly available—

(1)a report containing the inventory under this section, by not later than 2 years after the effective date of this section; and

(2)each update of such inventory.

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The

Effective Date

of this section, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 109–58, which enacted this section.

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Change of Name

Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

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For

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of subtitle D of title IV of Pub. L. 109–58, which enacted this part, as the “Coal Leasing

Amendments

Act of 2005”, see section 431 of Pub. L. 109–58, set out as a note under section 15801 of this title.

§15991 Inventory Requirement

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Title 42, §15991

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