COAL Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires Interior to advance pending qualified coal lease applications and related mining approvals as soon as practicable.
Who Benefits and How
Coal lease applicants and existing lessees needing additional approvals could gain faster progress toward mining activity.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Interior would be required to move pending lease applications and related approvals forward quickly, reducing agency discretion and delaying effects of review barriers.
Key Provisions
- Requires Interior to publish draft environmental assessments if needed, finalize fair market value, take intermediate steps, and grant each qualified coal application.
- Requires Interior to grant additional approvals needed for mining activity to commence on previously awarded coal leases.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires Interior to advance pending qualified coal lease applications and related mining approvals as soon as practicable.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires Interior to advance pending qualified coal lease applications and related mining approvals as soon as practicable.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Coal lease applicants and existing lessees needing approvals
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Interior officials required to advance and grant the pending applications and approvals
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Lummis (for herself and Mr. Barrasso) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Coal lease applicants and existing lessees receiving faster federal approvals
Interior officials required to process and grant the pending applications and approvals
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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