SENATE 534118th CongressPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 137.

Buffalo Tract Protection Act

Last Action: 7/19/2023

Actions

2023-07-19Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 137.
2023-07-19Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-63.
2023-07-19Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-63.
2023-05-17Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2023-02-27Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2023-02-27Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2023-07-19 (25)

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.

Cosponsors (1)

Ben Luján (D-NM)

Subjects

Land transfers
Mining
New Mexico

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