S. 366: A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Introduced:
Feb 14, 2013 (113th Congress, 2013–2015)
Sponsor:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Status:
Referred to Committee

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Progress
Introduced Feb 14, 2013
Referred to Committee Feb 14, 2013
Reported by Committee ...
Passed Senate ...
Passed House ...
Signed by the President ...
Prognosis

8% chance of getting past committee.
2% chance of being enacted.

Only 12% of Senate bills made it past committee and only 2% were enacted in 2011–2013. [show factors | methodology]

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Committees

Senate Energy and Natural Resources

↪ Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

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Last updated Feb 14, 2013.
3 pages

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2/14/2013--Introduced.
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 regarding waivers of small miner claim maintenance fees to extend the allowance of a certain period to cure a defect in the waiver application to a failure to timely file either a waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.
Considers specified claimholder claims as:
(1) having received a first half final certificate for application before September 30, 1994; and
(2) qualifying for specified relief under the Act, including opportunity to cure.

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  • Title 30: MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
  • Chapter 2: MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
  • Section 28f: Fee