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Union Calendar No. 427 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1884 
[Report No. 117–592] 
To repeal section 3003 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 12, 2021 
Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. KILMER, Mr. RUIZ, 
Mr. SABLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. HAS-
TINGS, Ms. LEGER
FERNANDEZ, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. 
CA´RDENAS, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. MENG, Ms. DEGETTE, 
and Ms. PINGREE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Natural Resources 
DECEMBER 7, 2022 
Additional sponsors: Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. NADLER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. 
LEVIN of California, Mr. POCAN, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. PORTER, Mrs. 
HAYES, Mr. SOTO, Mr. COHEN, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. DAVIDS of 
Kansas, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. CHU, Mr. CASE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. NEWMAN, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. MCEACHIN, 
Mr. KAHELE, Ms. LOFGREN, Mrs. DEMINGS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. LIEU, 
Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. 
AGUILAR, Mr. JONES, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. 
STRICKLAND, Mr. COLE, Ms. WILD, Mr. CARSON, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, 
Mr. TAKANO, Mrs. AXNE, Mr. BEYER, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. 
CRIST, Ms. BASS, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Mr. LEVIN 
of Michigan, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. STANSBURY, 
Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. SEAN PAT-
RICK MALONEY of New York, Mr. HARDER of California, Mr. BOWMAN, 
Ms. JACOBS of California, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. OMAR, Mr. 
DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. TONKO, Ms. SPANBERGER, Mr. COURT-
NEY, Mr. MCNERNEY, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. MANNING, Mrs. CAROLYN 
B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. ROSS, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. 
SCHRIER, Ms. BUSH, Ms. BOURDEAUX, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. MORELLE, 
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Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. WIL-
LIAMS of Georgia, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. 
MOULTON, and Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK 
DECEMBER 7, 2022 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources; committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed 
A BILL 
To repeal section 3003 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. 
‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2015, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Save Oak Flat Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Section 3003 of the Carl Levin and Howard 
P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (16 U.S.C. 539p) author-
izes Oak Flat, which is sacred to Indian Tribes in 
the region and is part of the larger Chı´’chil 
Bi5dagoteel Traditional Cultural Property listed in 
the National Register of Historic Places, to be 
transferred to Resolution Copper. 
(2) Resolution Copper plans to hold Oak Flat 
privately for a mining project that will— 
(A) result in the physical destruction of 
Tribal sacred areas and deprive American Indi-
ans from practicing their religious ceremonies 
and other traditional practices; 
(B) create significant negative environ-
mental impacts by destroying Oak Flat and de-
pleting and contaminating precious water re-
sources; and 
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(C) require significant quantities of water, 
which will— 
(i) likely affect the local hydrology, in-
cluding the underlying aquifer; and 
(ii) result in polluted water that will 
seep into drinking water supplies. 
(3)(A) Once Resolution Copper owns Oak Flat, 
Resolution Copper plans to use the highly destruc-
tive block cave mining method to remove 1 cubic 
mile of ore that (as of the date of enactment of this 
Act) is located 7,000 feet beneath the surface of the 
earth without replacing any of the earth removed, 
because that is the cheapest form of mining. 
(B) Resolution Copper admits that the surface 
of Oak Flat will subside and ultimately collapse, de-
stroying forever the Tribal sacred areas described in 
paragraph (2)(A). 
(4) The Tonto National Forest in which Oak 
Flat is located was established in 1905 from the an-
cestral homelands of American Indians, who were 
forcibly removed at gunpoint from Oak Flat and 
other areas of the Forest by the Army during the 
1880s and held as prisoners of war until the early 
1900s. 
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(5)(A) Section 3003 of the Carl Levin and 
Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (16 U.S.C. 
539p)— 
(i) was included in that Act without proper 
legislative process, in a manner that cir-
cumvented the will of the majority of Members 
of Congress; and 
(ii) was originally introduced in the House 
of Representatives as H.R. 687 and in the Sen-
ate as S. 339 during the 113th Congress. 
(B) H.R. 687 was— 
(i) brought to the floor of the House of 
Representatives for consideration twice; and 
(ii) pulled from consideration each time. 
(C) S. 339 was never considered— 
(i) by the Senate; or 
(ii) for mark-up by the Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate. 
(D) Section 3003 of the Carl Levin and How-
ard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (16 U.S.C. 539p) was 
included in that Act without majority support from 
either the House of Representatives or the Senate. 
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