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Calendar No. 443
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-196
PECOS WATERSHED PROTECTION ACT
JULY 23, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 3033]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3033) to withdraw certain Federal land in the
Pecos Watershed area of the State of New Mexico from mineral
entry, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 3033 is to withdraw approximately 176,199
acres of Federal land in the Pecos River Watershed in New Mexico
from the public land laws, and mining, mineral leasing, and geo-
thermal leasing laws.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Pecos River begins in north-central New Mexico and flows
approximately 926 miles south into Texas, where it empties into
the Rio Grande River. More than 20 miles of the Upper Pecos River
and its headwaters near Santa Fe are designated as a component
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
S. 3033 would withdraw approximately 164,600 acres of National
Forest System and Bureau of Land Management lands located in
the Upper Pecos Watershed from the public land laws, and mining,
mineral leasing, and geothermal leasing laws.
The area proposed for withdrawal has a history of mining dating
back to the late 19th century. In 1991, a spill of toxic water from
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