(3) REPORT
CONTENTS.—The reports under 
paragraph (1) shall comply with any recordkeeping 
and reporting requirements prescribed by the Sec-
retary or required by applicable Federal laws in effect 
at the time of production. 
(b) PAYMENT
ON PRODUCTION.—If the cumulative 
production of valuable locatable minerals produced in com-
mercial quantities from the Federal land conveyed to Reso-
lution Copper under section 4 exceeds the quantity of pro-
duction of locatable minerals from the Federal land used 
in the income capitalization approach analysis prepared 
under section 4(d), Resolution Copper shall pay to the 
United States, by not later than March 15 of each applica-
ble calendar year, a value adjustment payment for the 
quantity of excess production at the same rate assumed for 
the income capitalization approach analysis prepared 
under section 4(d). 
(c) STATE LAW UNAFFECTED.—Nothing in this section 
modifies, expands, diminishes, amends, or otherwise affects 
any State law relating to the imposition, application, tim-
ing, or collection of a State excise or severance tax. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) SEPARATE
FUND.—All funds paid to the 
United States under this section shall be deposited in 
a special fund established in the Treasury and shall 
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be available, in such amounts as are provided in ad-
vance in appropriation Acts, to the Secretary and the 
Secretary of the Interior only for the purposes author-
ized by paragraph (2). 
(2) AUTHORIZED USE.—Amounts in the special 
fund established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be 
used for maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation 
projects for Forest Service and Bureau of Land Man-
agement assets. 
SEC. 7. WITHDRAWAL. 
Subject to valid existing rights, Apache Leap and any 
land acquired by the United States under this Act are with-
drawn from all forms of— 
(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
public land laws; 
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
laws; and 
(3) disposition under the mineral leasing, min-
eral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 
SEC. 8. APACHE LEAP. 
(a) MANAGEMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 
Apache Leap to preserve the natural character of 
Apache Leap and to protect archeological and cul-
tural resources located on Apache Leap. 
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(2) SPECIAL USE PERMITS.—The Secretary may 
issue to Resolution Copper special use permits allow-
ing Resolution Copper to carry out underground ac-
tivities (other than the commercial extraction of min-
erals) under the surface of Apache Leap that the Sec-
retary determines would not disturb the surface of the 
land, subject to any terms and conditions that the 
Secretary may require. 
(3) FENCES; 
SIGNAGE.—The Secretary may 
allow use of the surface of Apache Leap for installa-
tion of fences, signs, monitoring devices, or other 
measures necessary to protect the health and safety of 
the public, protect resources located on Apache Leap, 
or to ensure that activities conducted under para-
graph (2) do not affect the surface of Apache Leap. 
(b) PLAN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in 
consultation with affected Indian tribes, the Town, 
Resolution Copper, and other interested members of 
the public, shall prepare a management plan for 
Apache Leap. 
(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In preparing the plan 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall consider 
whether additional measures are necessary to— 
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(A) protect the cultural, archaeological, or 
historical resources of Apache Leap, including 
permanent or seasonal closures of all or a por-
tion of Apache Leap; and 
(B) provide access for recreation. 
(c) MINING ACTIVITIES.—The provisions of this section 
shall not impose additional restrictions on mining activi-
ties carried out by Resolution Copper adjacent to, or outside 
of, the Apache Leap area beyond those otherwise applicable 
to mining activities on privately owned land under Federal, 
State, and local laws, rules and regulations. 
SEC. 9. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
(a) REVOCATION OF ORDERS; WITHDRAWAL.— 
(1) REVOCATION OF ORDERS.—Any public land 
order that withdraws the Federal land from appro-
priation or disposal under a public land law shall be 
revoked to the extent necessary to permit disposal of 
the land. 
(2) WITHDRAWAL.—On the date of enactment of 
this Act, if the Federal land or any Federal interest 
in the non-Federal land to be exchanged under section 
4 is not withdrawn or segregated from entry and ap-
propriation under a public land law (including min-
ing and mineral leasing laws and the Geothermal 
Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.)), the land 
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or interest shall be withdrawn, without further action 
required by the Secretary concerned, from entry and 
appropriation. The withdrawal shall be terminated— 
(A) on the date of consummation of the land 
exchange; or 
(B) if Resolution Copper notifies the Sec-
retary in writing that it has elected to withdraw 
from the land exchange pursuant to section 
206(d) of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act of 1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 
1716(d)). 
(3) RIGHTS OF RESOLUTION COPPER.—Nothing 
in this Act shall interfere with, limit, or otherwise 
impair, the unpatented mining claims or rights cur-
rently held by Resolution Copper on the Federal land, 
nor in any way change, diminish, qualify, or other-
wise impact Resolution Copper’s rights and ability to 
conduct activities on the Federal land under such 
unpatented mining claims and the general mining 
laws of the United States, including the permitting or 
authorization of such activities. 
(b) MAPS, ESTIMATES, AND DESCRIPTIONS.— 
(1) MINOR ERRORS.—The Secretary concerned 
and Resolution Copper may correct, by mutual agree-
ment, any minor errors in any map, acreage esti-
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mate, or description of any land conveyed or ex-
changed under this Act. 
(2) CONFLICT.—If there is a conflict between a 
map, an acreage estimate, or a description of land in 
this Act, the map shall control unless the Secretary 
concerned and Resolution Copper mutually agree oth-
erwise. 
(3) AVAILABILITY.—On the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall file and make available 
for public inspection in the Office of the Supervisor, 
Tonto National Forest, each map referred to in this 
Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 121 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 687 
[Report No. 113–167] 
A BILL 
To facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral re-
sources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and 
directing an exchange of Federal and non-Fed-
eral land, and for other purposes. 
JULY 22, 2013 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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