S.Amdt. 2931

SA 2931. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle H of title X, insert
the following:

SECTION 10_____. REINSTATEMENT OF THE BULL MOUNTAINS MINING
PLAN MODIFICATION.

(a) Definition of Bull Mountains Mining Plan
Modification.--In this section, the term ``Bull Mountains
Mining Plan Modification'' means Amendment 3, Bull Mountains
Mine No. 1, Mining Plan Modification for Federal Coal Lease
MTM 97988, that was--
(1) analyzed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement Environmental Assessment, dated May 11, 2018;
(2) approved by the Department of the Interior Assistant
Secretary for Land and Minerals Management on August 3, 2018;
(3) further analyzed in the Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement Environmental Assessment, dated
October 2020; and
(4) affirmed by Department of the Interior Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management in a
concurrence memorandum, dated November 18, 2020.
(b) Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification
Reinstatement.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall,
without modification or delay, reinstate the Bull Mountains
Mining Plan Modification.
(2) Duration.--On reinstatement under paragraph (1), the
Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification shall remain in
effect and

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operational until mining under the Bull Mountains Mining Plan
Modification is complete, as determined by the Montana
Department of Environmental Quality.
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