Buffalo Tract Protection Act

United States118th CongressS-534Senate
Updated: Jul 19, 2023

Summary

Buffalo Tract Protection Act This bill withdraws specified Bureau of Land Management lands in Placitas, New Mexico, from (1) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (2) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. Any conveyance of the surface estate of such federal land requires a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.

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  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

    Senate

  3. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 137.

    Senate

  4. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-63.

    Senate