1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stream Protection and Vegetation Restoration Act . 2. Amendments to Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (a) Reclamation plan requirements Section 508(a)(7) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1258(a)(7) ) is amended by inserting , not to exceed the time and distance standards established in section 515(g) after reclamation plan . (b) Revision of permits Section 511(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1261(a) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (5); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: (3) A request to temporarily cease or suspend mining operations is a significant permit revision for purposes of paragraph (2). (4) In each case where no active coal removal or reclamation has occurred at a permitted mine for more than 6 months during any 3-year period, the applicable permit shall be considered out of compliance with the reclamation plan— (A) unless the permit is in compliance with time and distance standards established in section 515(g) and does not have any variances from such standards; and (B) until the date on which the regulatory authority approves— (i) a reasonable plan submitted by the operator to return to production not later than 1 year after the date on which the operator is notified that the applicable permit is considered out of compliance under this paragraph; or (ii) an application for a revision of the permit submitted by the permittee under paragraph (1). . (c) Environmental protection performance standards Section 515 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1265 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (16)— (i) by inserting , not to exceed the time and distance standards established in subsection (g) after contemporaneously as practicable with the surface coal mining operations ; and (ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon