S. 180IntroducedPUBLIC LANDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
Land transfers · Mining · New Mexico
Key facts
Introduced: Feb 2, 2021
Chamber: Senate
Cosponsors: 1
Congress: 117th
Latest action · Jan 31, 2022
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 257.
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.
Summary by Congressional Research Service.
Timeline
- Jan 31, 2022Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 257.
- Jan 31, 2022Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 117-60.
- Jan 31, 2022Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 117-60.
- Nov 18, 2021Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Oct 19, 2021Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-453.
- Feb 2, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Feb 2, 2021Introduced in Senate
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