S. 534 · 118th Congress
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Martin Heinrich
- Introduced
- 2023-02-27
- Latest action
- 2023-07-19 · Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-63.
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.