[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2966. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10___. WITHDRAWAL OF CERTAIN BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
                   LAND.

       (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     Federal land described in subsection (b) is withdrawn from 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 section 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.
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