H.R.1820: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes.

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Bill Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of that version is repeated here.) (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to provide bidding credits for a coal preference right lease applicant to acquire federal mineral rights if such applicant agrees to relinquish its rights to an existing coal lease on federal land. Bidding credits, which are fully transferable, are assigned a...

(Source: Library of Congress)

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Bill Actions

Date Description
March 10, 2016
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-446.
March 10, 2016
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 341.
Oct. 8, 2015
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Oct. 8, 2015
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Oct. 8, 2015
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
Oct. 7, 2015
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
April 30, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
April 15, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
April 15, 2015

Introduced in the House by Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.)

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