I 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7074 
To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary 
of the Interior on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 14, 2026 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself, Mr. HURD of Colorado, Mr. ROSE, Mrs. 
HINSON, and Mr. EZELL) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include 
the Secretary of the Interior on the Committee on For-
eign Investment in the United States, and for other 
purposes. 
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 ‘‘Keeping Public Lands 
Out of Adversarial Hands Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 
ON THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVEST-
MENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND CONSID-
ERATION OF CERTAIN LAND OR RESOURCE 
TRANSACTIONS. 
(a) INCLUSION
ON
THE
COMMITTEE.—Section 
721(k) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 
INTERIOR.—The Secretary of the Interior shall be a 
member of the Committee with respect to a covered 
transaction that involves land or resources adjacent 
to land or sites owned or managed by— 
‘‘(A) the Bureau of Land Management; 
‘‘(B) the Bureau of Reclamation; 
‘‘(C) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 
‘‘(D) the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-
agement; 
‘‘(E) the National Park Service; and 
‘‘(F) the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service.’’. 
(b) CONSIDERATION
OF CERTAIN LAND
OR RE-
SOURCE TRANSACTIONS.—Section 721(b)(1) of the De-
fense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(b)(1)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(I) CONSIDERATION
OF
CERTAIN
LAND 
OR RESOURCE TRANSACTIONS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—After receiving no-
tification from the Secretary of the Inte-
rior of a reportable land or resource trans-
action, the Committee shall determine— 
‘‘(I) whether the transaction is a 
covered transaction; and 
‘‘(II) if the Committee deter-
mines that the transaction is a cov-
ered transaction, whether the Com-
mittee should initiate a review pursu-
ant to subparagraph (D), or take an-
other action authorized under this sec-
tion, with respect to the reportable 
land or resource transaction. 
‘‘(ii) REPORTABLE
LAND
OR
RE-
SOURCE TRANSACTION.—In this subpara-
graph, the term ‘reportable land or re-
source transaction’ means a transaction— 
‘‘(I) that the Secretary of the In-
terior has reason to believe is a cov-
ered transaction; and 
‘‘(II) that involves the acquisition 
of an interest in land or resource by 
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a foreign person of the People’s Re-
public of China, the Democratic Peo-
ple’s Republic of Korea, the Russian 
Federation, or the Islamic Republic of 
Iran. 
‘‘(iii) 
SUNSET.—The 
requirements 
under this subparagraph shall terminate, 
with respect to a foreign person of the re-
spective foreign country, on the date that 
the People’s Republic of China, the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Rus-
sian Federation, or the Islamic Republic of 
Iran, as the case may be, is removed from 
the list of foreign adversaries in section 
791.4 of title 15, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.’’. 
Æ 
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