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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-491
BUFFALO TRACT PROTECTION ACT
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2640]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2640) to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management
land from mineral development, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that
the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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subsection (b) is withdrawn from all forms of-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 Novem-
ber 13, 2019.
(c) SURFACE ESTATE.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-Subject to the reservation of the mineral estate under para-
graph (2), nothing in this Act prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from con-
veying the surface estate of the Federal land described in subsection (b) in ac-
cordance with-
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