Coal companies can pay federal lease bonuses over 10 years.
S. 4410 — A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for the payment of bonus payments of certain coal leases issued under that Act. · Filed by John Barrasso (R-WY) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 28, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill changes the Mineral Leasing Act. Coal companies can spread bonus payments across 10 equal yearly installments. The first payment is due when the company wins the lease bid. The other nine payments come one per year after that.
Who it affects
Coal companies that win federal lease auctions benefit from delayed payments. The federal government and taxpayers receive bonus money more slowly. The public owns the coal being leased and receives compensation.
One thing to notice
Spreading payments over 10 years means the federal government gets less money in present value. A coal company may fail to pay remaining installments in years two through ten.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Apr 28, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 28, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S2083)”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held”
- Jul 29, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $820,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 67 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
John Barrasso, who sponsored the bill, received $395,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Mining Association — $820,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Mineral Leasing Act — A federal law that controls how companies lease public land to mine coal and other minerals.
- bonus payments — Money a company pays upfront to win the right to lease federal land for mining.
- installments — Equal payments spread out over time instead of one lump sum.
- present value — What money received in the future is worth in today's dollars.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (382 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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