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H. Rept. 119-386 1 (2025-11-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahwg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-386 MINING REGULATORY CLARITY ACT NOVEMBER 25, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 1366] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1366) to provide for the location of multiple hardrock mining mill sites, to establish the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Fund, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor- ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act. SEC. 2. HARDROCK MINING MILL SITES. (a) MULTIPLE MILL SITES.-Section 2337 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (30 U.S.C. 42) is amended by adding at the end the following: (c) ADDITIONAL MILL SITES.- (1) DEFINITIONS.-In this subsection: (A) MILL SITE.-The term 'mill site' means a location of public land that is reasonably necessary for waste rock or tailings disposal or other oper- ations reasonably incident to mineral development on, or production from land included in a plan of operations. (B) OPERATIONS; OPERATOR.-The terms 'operations' and 'operator' have the meanings given those terms in section 3809.5 of title 43, Code of Fed- eral Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this subsection). (C) PLAN OF OPERATIONS.-The term 'plan of operations' means a plan of operations that an operator must submit and the Secretary of the Inte- rior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as applicable, must approve before an operator may begin operations, in accordance with, as applicable- 69-006