I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 316 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the village of Santa 
Clara, the city of Bayard, or the county of Grant, in the State of 
New Mexico, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, 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 
JANUARY 5, 2007 
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 to the village 
of Santa Clara, the city of Bayard, or the county of 
Grant, in the State of New Mexico, in tracts of not 
less than 40 acres, 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. 
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. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to this Act, the Secretary 
of Agriculture (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
‘‘Secretary’’) 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 
Clara), and the State of New Mexico (216 acres 
more or less). 
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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— 
(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-
sure access to lands of the United States or to meet 
public needs; and 
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(6) may contain such additional terms, condi-
tions, reservations, and restrictions as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary to be necessary to protect 
the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 3. APPROVAL OF ALL PARTIES REQUIRED FOR CON-
VEYANCE. 
The Secretary shall not make a conveyance under this 
Act to any one of the eligible buyers, without written ap-
proval 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, the Secretary 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 selected lands by the acquiring party. 
The Secretary may, at the Secretary’s discretion, use a 
deed reservation to retain historic or prehistoric properties 
in the ownership of the United States instead of site recov-
ery, if agreeable to the acquiring party. 
SEC. 5. SALE OF MINERAL INTERESTS. 
Upon application by the acquiring party, all the undi-
vided 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 Sec-
retary of the Interior. In areas where the Secretary of the 
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Interior determines that there is no active mineral devel-
opment or leasing, and that the lands have no mineral 
value, the mineral interests covered by a single application 
shall be sold for a consideration 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 Sec-
retary of the Interior deems necessary or appropriate. 
SEC. 6. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. 
(a) DEPOSIT AND PAYMENT.—Each application for 
a conveyance to be made under this Act shall be accom-
panied by a nonrefundable deposit to be applied to related 
administrative costs as determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior. If the conveyance is made pursuant to an applica-
tion, the applicant shall pay to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior the full administrative costs, less the deposit. If a con-
veyance is not made pursuant to the application, the de-
posit shall constitute full satisfaction of such administra-
tive costs notwithstanding that the administrative costs 
exceed the deposit. 
(b) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this Act, the 
term ‘‘administrative costs’’ includes, in addition to other 
items, all costs that the Secretary of the Interior deter-
mines are included in a determination of— 
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(1) the mineral character of the land in ques-
tion; and 
(2) the fair market value of the mineral inter-
est. 
SEC. 7. AMOUNTS PAID INTO TREASURY. 
Amounts paid to the Secretary of the Interior under 
this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States as miscellaneous receipts. 
Æ 
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