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42 U.S.C. § 15991Inventory requirement

submitted 21 years ago by Pub. L. 109-58 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 242 words · no verdicts yet

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The Interior Secretary, with the Agriculture Secretary and the Energy Secretary, must review coal data to inventory federal coal resources, restrictions on developing them, and compliant or supercompliant low-sulfur coal. The inventory must be finished within two years and made public.

(a) Review of assessments: (1) The Secretary of the Interior, consulting with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary, must review coal assessments and other available data to identify (A) federal land with coal resources available for development; (B) the extent and nature of any restrictions on developing that coal; and (C) for land with enough data, how much compliant and supercompliant coal it holds. (2) For this subsection, (A) "compliant coal" means coal with between 1.0 and 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu, and (B) "supercompliant coal" means coal with less than 1.0 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu. (b) Completion and updating of the inventory: The Secretary (1) must finish the inventory within 2 years after August 8, 2005, and (2) must update it as new data and technology warrant. (c) Report: The Secretary must submit to the House Resources Committee and the Senate Energy Committee, and make public, (1) a report with the inventory, within 2 years after this section took effect, and (2) each later update of that inventory.
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(a) Review of assessments
(1) In general

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) Definitions

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) Completion and updating of the inventory

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) Report

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.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 437, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 762.)

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  • 2005Enacted · Pub. L. 109-58 · 119 Stat. 762

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