Resolution providing a moratorium on Federal coal leasing.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Expresses the sense of the Senate that, if the President of the United States vetoes or fails to sign the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1974, pending final congressional action on legislation for the regulation of surface coal mining operations in the Ninety-fourth Congress, the Secretary of the Interior exercise his authority under existing law and: (1) withdraw temporarily from prospecting and exploration, lease or other disposal deposits of coal owned by the United States which are minable by surface mining methods; and (2) suspend pending applications for coal prospecting permits and leases.…