S.Amdt. 2966

SA 2966. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 10___. WITHDRAWAL OF CERTAIN BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND.

(a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights, the
Federal land described in subsection (b) is withdrawn from
all forms of--
(1) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and
(2) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral
materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
(b) Description.--The Federal land referred to in
subsections (a) and (c) is the approximately 4,288 acres of
land administered by the Director of the Bureau of Land
Management and generally depicted as ``Tract A'', ``Tract
B'', ``Tract C'', and ``Tract D'' on the map entitled
``Placitas, New Mexico Area Map'' and dated November 13,
2019.
(c) Surface Estate.--
(1) In general.--Subject to the reservation of the mineral
estate under paragraph (2), nothing in this section prohibits
the Secretary of the Interior from conveying the surface
estate of the Federal land described in subsection (b) in
accordance with--
(A) the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); or
(B) the Act of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the
``Recreation and Public Purposes Act'') (43 U.S.C. 869 et
seq.).
(2) Mineral estate.--Any conveyance of the surface estate
of the Federal land described in subsection (b) shall require
a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.
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