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To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral development.
Summary
This bill withdraws approximately 4,288 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in Placitas, New Mexico from mineral development and mining activities. The withdrawal prevents the land from being developed for mineral extraction, mineral leasing, mineral materials, or geothermal leasing. The Secretary of the Interior may still convey the surface rights of the land to other parties, but the mineral rights must remain with the federal government. The land withdrawal is subject to any valid existing rights.
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- Apr 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Apr 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 10, 2025
Ms. Stansbury (for herself, Mr. Huffman, and Ms. Leger Fernandez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
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(a) In General.—Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal land described in subsection (b) is withdrawn from all forms of—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. <all>
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