I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2336 
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 
JUNE 12, 2013 
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 1,499 
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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