Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee, Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Buffalo Tract Protection Act This bill withdraws 4,288 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and identified as Tract A, Tract B, Tract C, and Tract D in Placitas, New Mexico, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. Any conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land must require a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.
Buffalo Tract Protection Act This bill withdraws 4,288 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and identified as Tract A, Tract B, Tract C, and Tract D in Placitas, New Mexico, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. Any conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land must require a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.