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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 269
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 117-70
RUBY MOUNTAINS PROTECTION ACT
FEBRUARY 10, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 609]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 609), to withdraw the National Forest System
land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe
National Forest and the National Wildlife Refuge System land in
Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko and White Pine Coun-
ties, Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing laws, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 609 is to withdraw approximately 309,272
acres of federal land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and approximately 39,926 acres
in the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge from operation under
the mineral leasing laws.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Ruby Mountains are located within the Humboldt-Toiyabe
National Forest in Nevada. In the summer of 2017, the BLM Ne-
vada State Office transmitted an Expression of Interest for oil and
gas leasing for 90 sections of land within the Ruby Mountains. On
September 29, 2017, the Forest Service announced the start of a
public process to analyze, and potentially make available for min-
eral development, 54,000 acres of the National Forest System lands
within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District. These parcels are lo-
cated south of Lamoille Canyon and North of Sherman Creek, on
the west side of the Ruby Mountains, and fall within areas covered
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