H.R. 2893

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2893 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2893

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

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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

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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described in subsection (b) is withdrawn from all forms of--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.
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