114 STAT. 232 PUBLIC LAW 106-191—APR. 28, 2000 (9) Existing trona producers Eire having to make long term business decisions affecting the type and Eunount of additioned infrastructure investments based on the certainty that sufficient acreage of leaseable trona will be available for mining in the future. (10) To maintain the vitality of the domestic trona industry and ensure the continued flow of valuable revenues to the Federal and State governments and products to the Americein public from trona production on Federal lands, the MinergJ Leasing Act should be £tmended to increase the acreage limitation for Federal sodium leases. SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF MINERAL LEASING ACT. Paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of section 27 of the Mineral Leasing Act (41 Stat. 448; 30 U.S.C. 184(b)(2)) is amended by striking "fifteen thouseind three hundred and sixty acres" and inserting "30,720 acres". Approved April 28, 2000. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3063: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 106-^69 (Comm. on Resources). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 145 (1999): Nov. 16, considered and passed House. Vol. 146 (2000): Apr. 13, considered and passed Senate.
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