; (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or a State, under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1342 ); or (3) the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, or a State, under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.). 6. Fee to pay for health studies and monitoring (a) Collection and assessment The President, acting through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement of the Department of the Interior, shall assess and collect from each person that, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, is conducting a mountaintop removal coal mining project in the United States a one-time fee in an amount sufficient to recover the Federal cost of implementing sections 3 and 5. (b) Use of fee Amounts received by the United States as a fee under this section may be used, to the extent and in the amount provided in advance in appropriations Acts, only to pay the Federal cost of carrying out sections 3 and 5. 7. definitions In this Act: (1) mountaintop removal coal mining The term mountaintop removal coal mining means surface coal mining that uses blasting with explosives in the steep slope regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia. (2) steep slope The term steep slope has the meaning that term has under section 515(d)(4) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1265(d)(4) ).