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[H.R. 2640 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 393
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2640

                          [Report No. 116-491]

    To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral 
                              development.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2019

Ms. Haaland (for herself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                           September 8, 2020

                    Additional sponsor: Mr. McNerney

                           September 8, 2020

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 9, 
                                 2019]


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                                 A BILL


 
    To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral 
                              development.


 


    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 ``Buffalo Tract Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHDRAWAL.

    (a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal land 
described in subsection (b) is withdrawn from all forms of--
            (1) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and
            (2) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral 
        materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
    (b) Description.--The Federal land referred to in subsections (a) 
and (c) is the approximately 4,288 acres of land administered by the 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management and generally depicted as 
``Tract A'', ``Tract B'', ``Tract C'', and ``Tract D'' on the map 
entitled ``Placitas, New Mexico Area Map'' and dated November 13, 2019.
    (c) Surface Estate.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to the reservation of the mineral 
        estate under paragraph (2), nothing in this Act prohibits the 
        Secretary of the Interior from conveying the surface estate of 
        the Federal land described in subsection (b) in accordance 
        with--
                    (A) the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
                1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); or
                    (B) the Act of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the 
                ``Recreation and Public Purposes Act'') (43 U.S.C. 869 
                et seq.).
            (2) Mineral estate.--Any conveyance of the surface estate 
        of the Federal land described in subsection (b) shall require a 
        reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 393

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 2640

                          [Report No. 116-491]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

    To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral 
                              development.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 8, 2020

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed