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Requires the Department of the Interior to finish processing and approve specified federal coal lease applications that are pending on the date the law takes effect, including publishing required environmental documents, setting fair market value, and granting any additional permissions needed for mining to begin. Also nullifies Secretarial Order 3338 (the 2016 Interior coal leasing moratorium), removing that moratorium’s constraint on leasing decisions.
The law directs immediate administrative steps by the Secretary of the Interior to complete approvals for eligible applications and to finalize any outstanding permissions tied to awarded leases so mining operations can proceed once approvals are complete.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced October 23, 2025 by Cynthia M. Lummis · Last progress October 23, 2025