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INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 137
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-63
BUFFALO TRACT PROTECTION ACT
JULY 19, 2023.-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. 534]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 534), to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Man-
agement land from mineral development, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 534 is to withdraw approximately 4,288 acres
of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management
in Sandoval County, New Mexico from mineral development.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
In 2012, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft
of the new resource management plan (RMP) for BLM lands in cen-
tral New Mexico, which proposed to open four parcels, including
the Buffalo Tract and Crest of the Montezuma, in southern
Sandoval County to mineral development, including gravel mining.
Since the release of the draft plan, some local residents and stake-
holders have expressed concerns about a gravel mine on this land.
S. 534 would withdraw approximately 4,288 acres of land admin-
istered by the BLM near Placitas, New Mexico, from location,
entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under the
mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
In 2019 testimony on a previous version of the bill, S. 526 in the
116th Congress, the BLM projected that a final environmental im-
pact statement and Record of Decision for the RMP would be re-
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