A bill to provide that amounts paid by a mine operator to a State in the form of a reclamation fee may be credited form of a reclamation fee may be credited against the amount paid to the Secretary of the Interior for the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.

Provides that any operator of a coal mining operation who is liable under any law of the United States for payments to any Federal fund for the reclamation of coal mined land may take as a credit against the amount of such payment due in any year the amount of any reclamation fee or severance tax paid to the State during that year.

States that such credits shall not exceed the amount payable to the United States.

Defines the terms "reclamation fee" and "severance tax" for purposes of this Act.