{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-1501","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 1501","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the FAST Act to include certain mineral production activities as a covered project, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the FAST Act to include certain mineral production activities as a covered project, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend the FAST Act to include certain mineral production activities as a covered project, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-02-21","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2026-09-02","vote":{"id":"119-2026-h294","question":"On Passage","title":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act","result":"Passed","yea":218,"nay":201,"present":0,"not_voting":14,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll294.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2026-09-14"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-02-21","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill provides statutory authority for federal agencies to expedite the environmental review of certain mining infrastructure projects."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill permanently makes certain mining infrastructure projects eligible for expedited environmental review under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). This provides statutory authority for similar authorities that were included in the rule titled Adding Mining as a Sector of Projects Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act and issued by the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) on January 8, 2021."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also prohibits the Permitting Council from finalizing its proposed rule titled Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act and issued on September 22, 2023. Among other modifications, the rule proposes to limit the types of mining projects that are eligible for the expedited environmental review process. Specifically, the proposed rule limits the expedited process to critical minerals mining projects."}],"words":173},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Adds mining and mineral processing to the sectors of projects covered under Title 41 of the FAST Act and bars the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from finalizing or carrying out a proposed rule on the scope of the mining sector.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#H9B772B9DE0EF4809BF72051E835AC257"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#HE7D00E8B6363479FB8C36EF1CD71551B"}]},"core_areas":["FAST Act covered project definition for mining and mineral processing","Limit on the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council's proposed mining sector rule"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends section 41001(6)(A) of the FAST Act by inserting \"mining, mineral processing,\" before \"or any other sector\" in the definition of a covered project.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#H9B772B9DE0EF4809BF72051E835AC257"}},{"text":"Bars the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the proposed rule titled \"Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act\" (88 Fed. Reg. 65350; September 22, 2023).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#HE7D00E8B6363479FB8C36EF1CD71551B"}},{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#H3DB175A074B54E1B97E748FFE3F1FC50"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh#HE7D00E8B6363479FB8C36EF1CD71551B"},"heading":"Prohibition against finalizing, implementing, or enforcing proposed rule related to scope of mining under FAST Act","effect":"Bars the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing a specific proposed rule on the scope of the mining sector under Title 41 of the FAST Act.","amount":null,"quote":"may not finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2026-09-02","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-12","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1501/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-1501.png","v":"8d52f1a3ec82","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 1501, 119th Congress: Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025. House: 218 Yea, 201 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 2 Sep 2026."}}