AMENDMENT OF SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION ACT.

SEC. 101. AMENDMENT OF SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION ACT. Section 402(g) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is amended by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4) and by adding the following new paragraph after paragraph (2): “(3) Special State Set-Aside for Future Expenditure.—Notwithstanding the proviso contained in paragraph (2), any State may receive and retain, without regard to the three-year limitation referred to in such proviso, up to ten per centum of the appropriated funds granted annually by the Secretary to that State under paragraph (2) if such moneys are deposited in a special trust fund established under State law and such moneys (together with all interest earned on such moneys) may be expended by the State solely to accomplish the purposes of this title after August 3, 1992. All moneys so deposited in special State trust accounts, as well as all interest earned, shall be considered State moneys. This paragraph shall cease to apply to any State for fiscal years after any fiscal year in which approval of the State regulatory program under section 503 is terminated or withdrawn by the Secretary until the first subsequent fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the Secretary reapproves the State program.”.