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Hoeven: Royalty Rate Reduction Approved for Beulah's Freedom Mine, Supporting Affordable Baseload Power
February 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release:

Senator John Hoeven today announced that, following his efforts, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved a 10-year extension of North American Coal's royalty rate of 2.2 percent for Freedom Mine in Beulah:

The reduction is consistent with market rates for non-federal coal in the region, providing certainty to the largest lignit . . .

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