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Apr 10, 2025
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Apr 10, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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| Source: Senate
Apr 10, 2025
Introduced in Senate
Type: IntroReferral
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| Code: 10000
Apr 10, 2025
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Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025
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Version: Introduced in Senate
Version Date: Apr 10, 2025
Last Updated: Nov 15, 2025 2:13 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1464 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1464
To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral
development.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 10, 2025
Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
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,
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1464 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1464
To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral
development.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 10, 2025
Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
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.
This Act may be cited as the ``Buffalo Tract Protection Act''.
SEC. 2.
(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(b) is withdrawn from all forms of--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.
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