HR90 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Becky Nordgren

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Coal combustion products, conservation, preservation, and recovery, encouraged

Summary

A House resolution urging Congress to treat coal combustion products as strategic minerals and to promote their recovery and future access.

What This Bill Does

It urges Congress to propose and adopt legislation recognizing CCPs as strategic mineral resources and supporting their recovery. It notes that CCPs like fly ash, bottom ash, and FGD materials contain valuable minerals, including rare earth elements, and argues that recovering them can lower costs and save energy. It calls for preserving future access to CCPs produced or stored in impoundments or landfills for reclamation and recovery in line with the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It also directs copies of the resolution to Alabama's federal lawmakers to inform them of the state's concerns.

Who It Affects

• Federal policymakers (Congress) who would consider legislation recognizing CCPs as strategic mineral resources and promoting their recovery
• Alabama energy, construction, and mining stakeholders (including CCP producers and users) who could benefit from clearer access and potential cost savings if federal policy supports CCP recovery

Key Provisions

• Recognize CCPs as strategic mineral resources and urge federal legislation to treat them as such
• Encourage recovery of CCPs' resource value and use as substitutes for mined minerals to reduce costs and energy use
• Preserve future access to CCPs produced or stored in coal ash impoundments or landfills for reclamation and recovery, in a manner consistent with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
• Direct copies of the resolution to Alabama's Congressional Delegation to inform them of the state's concerns

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Subjects

Resolutions, Legislative