Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Nov 20, 2025
What it does
The Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025 would establish within the Environmental Protection Agency an Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains to coordinate cleanup actions at covered mine sites—including those on federal, state, tribal, local, and private lands affected by past hardrock mining—by developing priority lists, sharing best practices, facilitating interagency and tribal consultations, and providing technical assistance. The bill requires the Administrator to annually identify and report on prioritized mine sites to specific congressional committees and to develop a 10-year interagency plan for cleaning up abandoned uranium mine sites on Navajo Nation land by September 30, 2028,…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Done)
Floor (Current step)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.