H.R. 2640 · 116th Congress
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Debra Haaland
- Introduced
- 2019-05-09
- Latest action
- 2020-09-08 · Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-491.
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 shall require a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.