Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1865 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1865 To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2025 Mr. Grijalva (for himself and Mr. Huffman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short ti…