118th Congress Health
H.R. 5022: ACHE Act
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Summary
This bill prohibits the authorization or continuation of certain mountaintop removal coal mining pending the results of a study on the health effects of such mining.
Specifically, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences must study and publish the health effects on surrounding communities of surface coal mining that involves explosives and that is conducted in the steep slopes of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia. Federal and state agencies may not authorize or renew any such mining until and unless the study concludes that there are no health risks; entities that currently conduct such mining must monitor and report pollution levels associated with such mining until the study's publication.
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement must collect a one-time fee from each entity that currently or previously conducted such mining to cover the federal cost of implementing the bill's requirements.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Donald Beyer D-VAOriginal
- Steve Cohen D-TNOriginal
- Gerald Connolly D-VAOriginal
- Jared Huffman D-CAOriginal
- Betty McCollum D-MNOriginal
- Eleanor Norton D-DCOriginal
- Paul Tonko D-NYOriginal
- David Trone D-MDOriginal
- Joe Neguse D-CO
- Jamie Raskin D-MD
- Melanie Stansbury D-NM
- Katie Porter D-CA
- Gregorio Casar D-TX
- Andrea Salinas D-OR
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History
- Introduced in the House by Morgan McGarvey.
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- Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.