Bill Details
HR.1881 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced Date
2025-03-05
Policy Area
Taxation
Committees
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Cosponsors
View cosponsors (9)
- Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-Alabama-7]
- Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-Pennsylvania-14]
- Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-Pennsylvania-17]
- Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-Illinois-16]
- Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-Virginia-9]
- Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-Pennsylvania-16]
- Rep. Moore, Barry [R-Alabama-1]
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-Pennsylvania-9]
- Rep. Carey, Mike [R-Ohio-15]
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This bill would create a new federal tax credit for capturing methane gas that comes from mining. The goal is to encourage mine owners and related businesses to collect methane that would otherwise escape into the air, and to use it for energy or send it through pipelines instead. In simple terms, it gives a financial incentive to reduce harmful methane pollution from mines while also supporting energy production.
- The credit would apply to methane captured from mining sites, including underground mines, closed or abandoned mines, and surface mines.
- To qualify, the methane would need to be captured by special equipment and measured at the source, then verified when it is injected into a pipeline or put to use.
- The methane could be sent into a pipeline, used in a gathering system that feeds a pipeline, or used to make heat or other energy, as long as there is only a very small amount released into the air.
- A facility would have to begin construction before January 1, 2036, and capture at least 2,500 metric tons of methane-related emissions each year to be eligible.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1881 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1881
To amend section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish
the mine methane capture incentive credit.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 5, 2025
Mrs. Miller of West Virginia (for herself, Ms. Sewell, Mr.
Reschenthaler, and Mr. Deluzio) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
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A BILL
To amend section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish
the mine methane capture incentive credit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Methane Reduction and Economic
Growth Act''.
SEC. 2. MINE METHANE CAPTURE INCENTIVE CREDIT.
(a) In General.--Section 45Q(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(10) Methane capture.--
``(A) In general.--In the case of qualified
methane--
``(i) paragraph (4) of subsection (a) shall
be applied--
``(I) by substituting `per metric
ton of CO2e (as defined in section
45Z(d)(2)) of qualified methane' for
`per metric ton of qualified carbon
oxide',
``(II) by substituting `methane
capture equipment' for `carbon capture
equipment', and
``(III) by applying the following
in lieu of subparagraph (B) thereof:
```(B) either--
```(i) injected by the taxpayer for energy
use--
```(I) in a pipeline which
satisfies the pipeline integrity
management guidelines of section 192 of
title 49, Code of Federal Regulations,
and is in compliance with instrumental
leak monitoring and other preventive
and mitigative measures under section
192.935 of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations, or
```(II) in a gathering system that
feeds a pipeline described in subclause
(I), or
```(ii) otherwise used for producing heat
(for industrial use or to heat a structure) or
other energy, in a manner that does not involve
more than de-minimis release of methane into
the atmosphere' for `used by the taxpayer as a
tertiary injectant in a qualified enhanced oil
or natural gas recovery project and disposed of
by the taxpayer in secure geological
storage',',
``(ii) the term `qualified facility' shall
mean any individual source of qualified methane
such as borehole, well, or vent shaft
constructed at a mining facility--
``(I) the construction of which
begins before January 1, 2036,
``(II) for which construction of
methane capture equipment begins before
such date, and
``(III) which captures not less
than 2,500 metric tons of CO2e methane
during the taxable year, and
``(iii) this section shall be applied by
substituting `methane capture' for `carbon
capture' and `qualified methane' for `qualified
carbon oxide' in subsections (b)(2), (f)(1),
(f)(4), (h), and (i)(1).
``(B) Qualified methane defined.--For purposes of
this paragraph, the term `qualified methane' means any
methane which--
``(i) is captured from mining activities,
including underground mines, abandoned or
closed mines, or surface mines, by methane
capture equipment,
``(ii) would otherwise be released into the
atmosphere as industrial emission of greenhouse
gas or lead to such release, and
``(iii) is measured at the source of
capture and verified at the point of injection
or utilization.
``(C) Methane capture equipment defined.-- For
purposes of this paragraph, the term `methane capture
equipment' means equipment built to connect a qualified
facility to--
``(i) a preexisting or new pipeline system,
or
``(ii) to energy generation equipment, to
capture qualified methane from such source.''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to qualified methane captured after December 31, 2024.
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