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Version 25 · Reported to Senate · Dec 17, 2019
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.
People & committees
Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · D–NM
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 350.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-323.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate
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