[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2944 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2944

  To withdraw certain Federal lands and interests located in Pima and 
Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws 
             of the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2009

 Mr. Grijalva (for himself and Ms. Giffords) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To withdraw certain Federal lands and interests located in Pima and 
Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws 
             of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Southern Arizona Public Lands 
Protection Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. WITHDRAWAL OF FEDERAL LANDS AND INTERESTS LOCATED IN PIMA AND 
              SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES, ARIZONA.

    Subject to valid existing rights, after the date of enactment of 
this Act--
            (1) all federally owned interests in National Forest lands 
        in Santa Cruz County and Pima County, Arizona, are withdrawn 
        from--
                    (A) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal 
                under the public land laws;
                    (B) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
                laws; and
                    (C) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal 
                leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws;
            (2) all federally owned subsurface interests under the 
        administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in 
        lands in Pima County, Arizona, with respect to which the 
        surface interests are owned by such county, including in such 
        lands located in Davidson Canyon, are withdrawn from--
                    (A) all forms of entry, appropriation and disposal 
                under the public land laws;
                    (B) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
                laws; and
                    (C) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal 
                leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws; and
            (3) all federally owned interests in Bureau of Land 
        Management lands in Pima County, Arizona, are withdrawn from 
        entry, location, or patent under the general mining laws.
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