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S. Rept. 119-105 1 (2026-02-11)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaicv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 Calendar No. 334 119TH CONGRESS N E REPORT 2d Session J SENATE 119-105 MINING REGULATORY CLARITY ACT FEBRUARY 11, 2026.-Ordered to be printed Mr. LEE, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 5441 The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 544) 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 favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of S. 544 is to provide for the location of multiple hardrock mining mill sites and to establish the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Fund. BACKGROUND AND NEED In May of 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision vacating the Forest Service's ap- proval of the mining plan of operations for the Rosemont Copper Mine Project, located partially in the Coronado National Forest in Pima County, Arizona. Center For Biological Diversity v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, 33 F.4th 1202, 1224 (9th Cir. 2022), affg, 409 F. Supp. 3d 738 (D. Ariz. 2019). The Rosemont case ques- tioned whether the Surface Resources and Multiple Use Act of 1955 ('Multiple Use Act') gives Rosemont the right to dump its waste rock on open National Forest land, without regard to wheth- er it has any mining rights on that land, as a 'use[ I reasonably in- cident to its operations at the mine pit, and whether the Forest Service could assume that Rosemont had valid mining claims to the area where it proposed to dispose of its waste rock. Id. at 1207. 69-010