I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6344 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey lands of the former Fort 
Bayard Military Reservation in Grant County, New Mexico, to the village 
of Santa Clara, the city of Bayard, or the county of Grant in that 
State, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, and at market price at 
its present state of use as agricultural grazing lands as determined 
by the Secretary, for business and community development, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 2, 2012 
Mr. PEARCE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey lands of 
the former Fort Bayard Military Reservation in Grant 
County, New Mexico, to the village of Santa Clara, the 
city of Bayard, or the county of Grant in that State, 
in tracts of not less than 40 acres, and at market price 
at its present state of use as agricultural grazing lands 
as determined by the Secretary, for business and commu-
nity development, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND, FORMER FORT BAY-
ARD MILITARY RESERVATION, GRANT COUN-
TY, NEW MEXICO. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to this Act, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall convey the lands described in sub-
section (b) to one or more eligible buyers for the purpose 
of business and community development. 
(b) LAND DESCRIBED.—The lands to be conveyed 
under subsection (a) are the following lands that were for-
merly part of the Fort Bayard Military Reservation, Grant 
County, New Mexico, comprising approximately 1499 
acres, and are situated in sections: 
Township 17 South, Range 12 West, New Mex-
ico Principal Meridian. 
Section 30, all within the former Fort Bayard 
Military Reservation (31 acres more or less). 
Section 31, all within the former Fort Bayard 
Military Reservation (155 acres more or less). 
Township 17 South, Range 13 West, New Mex-
ico Principal Meridian. 
Section 34, all within the former Fort Bayard 
Military Reservation (584 acres more or less). 
Section 35, all within the former Fort Bayard 
Military Reservation less lands conveyed under other 
Federal authorities to the Village of Central (Santa 
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Clara), and the State of New Mexico (216 acres 
more or less). 
Section 36, all within the former Fort Bayard 
Military Reservation (513 acres more or less). 
(c) ELIGIBLE BUYERS.—For the purposes of this 
Act, eligible buyers are the village of Santa Clara, the city 
of Bayard, and the county of Grant in the State of New 
Mexico. 
SEC. 2. CONDITIONS. 
In making the conveyance under section 1, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture— 
(1) shall sell the land in tracts of not less than 
40 acres; 
(2) shall require as consideration for the land 
the market price of the land in its present state of 
use as agricultural grazing lands as determined by 
the Secretary; 
(3) shall protect all valid existing rights; 
(4) shall reserve easements for existing facilities 
such as roads, telephone lines, pipelines, electric 
power transmission lines, or other facilities or im-
provements in place; 
(5) shall reserve such easements for roads as 
the Secretary of Agriculture finds necessary to as-
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sure access to lands of the United States or to meet 
public needs; and 
(6) may contain such additional terms, condi-
tions, reservations, and restrictions as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be nec-
essary to protect the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 3. APPROVAL OF ALL PARTIES REQUIRED FOR CON-
VEYANCE. 
The Secretary of Agriculture shall not make a con-
veyance under this Act to any one of the eligible buyers, 
without written approval of the two nonacquiring eligible 
buyers. 
SEC. 4. HISTORIC OR PREHISTORIC SITES. 
If historic or prehistoric cultural properties are lo-
cated upon the lands to be conveyed under section 1, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall be responsible for the costs 
and recovery of these sites and shall do so in a timely 
manner so as not to unduly restrict future use of the se-
lected lands by the acquiring party. The Secretary may, 
at the Secretary’s discretion, use a deed reservation to re-
tain historic or prehistoric properties in the ownership of 
the United States instead of site recovery, if agreeable to 
the acquiring party. 
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SEC. 5. SALE OF MINERAL INTERESTS. 
(a) INCLUSION IN CONVEYANCE.—Upon application 
by the acquiring party, all the undivided mineral interest 
of the United States in any parcel or tract sold pursuant 
to this Act shall be conveyed to the acquiring party or 
its successor in title by the Secretary of the Interior. In 
areas where the Secretary of the Interior determines that 
there is no active mineral development or leasing, and that 
the lands have no mineral value, the mineral interests cov-
ered by a single application shall be sold for a consider-
ation of $1. In other areas the mineral interests shall be 
sold at the fair market value thereof as determined by the 
Secretary of the Interior after taking into consideration 
such appraisals as the Secretary of the Interior deems nec-
essary or appropriate. 
(b) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.— 
(1) DEPOSIT AND PAYMENT.—Each application 
for a conveyance to be made under this Act shall be 
accompanied by a nonrefundable deposit to be ap-
plied to related administrative costs as determined 
by the Secretary of the Interior. If the conveyance 
is made pursuant to an application, the applicant 
shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior the full ad-
ministrative costs, less the deposit. If a conveyance 
is not made pursuant to the application, the deposit 
shall constitute full satisfaction of such administra-
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tive costs notwithstanding that the administrative 
costs exceed the deposit. 
(2) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘administrative costs’’ includes, in ad-
dition to other items, all costs that the Secretary of 
the Interior determines are included in a determina-
tion of— 
(A) the mineral character of the land in 
question; and 
(B) the fair market value of the mineral 
interest. 
(c) AMOUNTS PAID INTO TREASURY.—Amounts paid 
to the Secretary of the Interior under this section shall 
be paid into the Treasury of the United States as miscella-
neous receipts. 
Æ 
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