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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for certain facilities that remediate and reclaim coal refuse sites in the United States by producing electricity from coal refuse.

USA115th CongressHR-4977| House 
| Updated: 2/8/2018
Lou Barletta

Lou Barletta

Republican Representative

Pennsylvania

Cosponsors (3)
Glenn Thompson (Republican)Keith J. Rothfus (Republican)Bill Shuster (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Coal Refuse Reclamation Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for facilities that use coal refuse to produce electricity. The credit is equal to $12 per ton of coal refuse used at a coal refuse facility to produce electricity at the facility during the 10-year period beginning on January 1, 2018. To qualify for the credit, the facility must have been originally placed in service prior to January 1, 2018, and combust coal refuse or fuel composed of at least 75% coal refuse by BTU energy value. The facility must also use: (1) at a minimum, a circulating fluidized bed combustion unit or a pressurized fluidized bed combustion unit equipped with a limestone injection system, for control of acid gases; and (2) a fabric filter particulate emission control system. The bill defines "coal refuse" as any waste coal, rock, shale, slurry, culm, gob, boney, slate, clay and related materials associated with or near a coal seam that are either brought aboveground or otherwise removed from a coal mine in the process of mining coal or that are separated from coal during the cleaning or preparation operations. The term includes underground development wastes, coal processing wastes and excess spoil, but does not include overburden from surface mining activities.
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Timeline
Feb 8, 2018
Introduced in House
Feb 8, 2018
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
  • February 8, 2018
    Introduced in House


  • February 8, 2018
    Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Taxation

Business recordsCoalElectric power generation and transmissionIncome tax creditsIndustrial facilitiesIndustrial policy and productivityPerformance measurement

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for certain facilities that remediate and reclaim coal refuse sites in the United States by producing electricity from coal refuse.

USA115th CongressHR-4977| House 
| Updated: 2/8/2018
Coal Refuse Reclamation Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for facilities that use coal refuse to produce electricity. The credit is equal to $12 per ton of coal refuse used at a coal refuse facility to produce electricity at the facility during the 10-year period beginning on January 1, 2018. To qualify for the credit, the facility must have been originally placed in service prior to January 1, 2018, and combust coal refuse or fuel composed of at least 75% coal refuse by BTU energy value. The facility must also use: (1) at a minimum, a circulating fluidized bed combustion unit or a pressurized fluidized bed combustion unit equipped with a limestone injection system, for control of acid gases; and (2) a fabric filter particulate emission control system. The bill defines "coal refuse" as any waste coal, rock, shale, slurry, culm, gob, boney, slate, clay and related materials associated with or near a coal seam that are either brought aboveground or otherwise removed from a coal mine in the process of mining coal or that are separated from coal during the cleaning or preparation operations. The term includes underground development wastes, coal processing wastes and excess spoil, but does not include overburden from surface mining activities.
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Timeline
Feb 8, 2018
Introduced in House
Feb 8, 2018
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
  • February 8, 2018
    Introduced in House


  • February 8, 2018
    Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Lou Barletta

Lou Barletta

Republican Representative

Pennsylvania

Cosponsors (3)
Glenn Thompson (Republican)Keith J. Rothfus (Republican)Bill Shuster (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee

Taxation

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Business recordsCoalElectric power generation and transmissionIncome tax creditsIndustrial facilitiesIndustrial policy and productivityPerformance measurement