To authorize the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a study to examine the potential relationship between increased health risks and living in proximity to sites that have been or are being mined for surface coal deposits, and the potential human health effects of surface coal mining operations in Central Appalachia, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8614.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McGARVEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 95, June 4, 2024, Page H3656):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Health
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  70 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8614, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8614

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 10, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b95d106510874af268e48f73e04064efd58648eae00596cfffee2df527724e3

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 10, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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