S. 526 · 116th Congress
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Martin Heinrich
- Introduced
- 2019-02-14
- Latest action
- 2019-12-17 · Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Summary
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.