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S 2741 Passed a chamber

Establishes an Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains within the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate cleanup of abandoned hardrock and uranium mine sites.

Official title: Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025

Next stop House: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received 20-NOV-2025
Senate
Introduced 09-SEP-2025
Referred 09-SEP-2025
Approved by committee 29-OCT-2025
Reported 29-OCT-2025
On the calendar 29-OCT-2025
Passed 19-NOV-2025
Key points
  • Creates the office inside the EPA division that runs solid waste programs, headed by a Director selected by the EPA Administrator
  • Requires the EPA to identify priority abandoned mine sites each year and report the list and cleanup status to Congress
  • Requires a 10-year interagency plan for cleaning up abandoned uranium mine sites on the Navajo Nation, with the first plan due by September 30, 2028
  • States that the office does not give the EPA new regulatory authority or set a default cleanup standard
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Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Environmental Protection

Sponsor Mark Kelly (D-AZ) Cosponsors · 1
■ 1 R
1 Republican