(5) Two privately held valid Federal contracts, 
numbered CA–20139 and CA–22901, issued under 
the Act of July 31, 1947 (30 U.S.C. 601 et seq.; 61 
Stat 681; commonly known as the Materials Act of 
1947), authorize the extraction of approximately 
56,000,000 tons of sand and gravel from the Fed-
eral mineral estate in lands located in Soledad Can-
yon adjacent to the city of Santa Clarita, California. 
(6) Those Federal contracts were awarded in 
1990 to Transit Mixed Concrete. Southdown, the 
parent company of Transit Mixed Concrete, was ac-
quired by CEMEX in 2000, resulting in CEMEX 
holding the Federal contracts. 
(7) The Bureau of Land Management approved 
a mining plan of operations and prepared a draft en-
vironmental impact statement with respect to the 
Soledad Canyon Mine, which was released on May 6, 
1999. The environmental impact statement was sub-
sequently modified to address growing concerns 
among Santa Clarita residents about the impact 
mining operations in Soledad Canyon had on air 
quality and health, truck traffic, and declining prop-
erty values in Santa Clarita. 
(8) The final environmental impact statement 
was released to the public on June 2, 2000, with a 
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list of eight alternatives for mining the Soledad Can-
yon site. 
(9) The county of Los Angeles was required, 
with respect to mining in Soledad Canyon, under the 
California Environmental Quality Act (Cal. Public 
Resources Code, section 21000 et seq.) to prepare 
an environmental impact report to comply with the 
California Surface Mining Reclamation Act (Cal. 
Public Resources Code, section 2710 et seq.). The 
final environmental impact report was released in 
April 2001, but the County Board of Supervisors 
voted to deny a permit under such Act (Cal. Public 
Resources Code, section 2710 et seq.) in early 2002, 
citing the right and responsibility of the county to 
impose reasonable environmental and resource pro-
tection and regulation on mining in Soledad Canyon. 
(10) Numerous lawsuits were filed between 
2002 and 2004 involving the city of Santa Clarita, 
the county of Los Angeles, the Center for Biological 
Diversity, and CEMEX. 
(11) Exhibit H to the Consent Decree resulting 
from the settlement of CEMEX Inc. v. County of 
Los Angeles, filed on May 20, 2004, in the United 
States District Court for the Central District of 
California, Western Division, contains the mitigation 
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agreement between CEMEX and the county of Los 
Angeles (entitled ‘‘Settlement Project Conditions’’), 
which lists 40 conditions that CEMEX is required to 
meet in order to mitigate the environmental, health, 
traffic, endangered species, and safety concerns 
raised by the county, local residents, and the city of 
Santa Clarita. 
(12) Congressman Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon 
of California has introduced the following bills with 
respect to the Soledad Canyon Mine: 
(A) H.R. 3060 (106th Congress) to with-
draw specified lands from the operation of Fed-
eral mining and mineral leasing laws and to 
nullify any existing permits issued on such 
lands. 
(B) H.R. 679 (107th Congress) to reintro-
duce H.R. 3060 from the 106th Congress. 
(C) H.R. 3529 (108th Congress), the 
Soledad Canyon Mine Lease Cancellation Act, 
to cancel two mining permits for the Soledad 
Canyon Mine and to prohibit the Secretary of 
the Interior from issuing permits for mining 
above historical levels in Soledad Canyon. 
(D) H.R. 5471 (109th Congress), the 
Soledad Canyon Mine Leases Adjustment Act— 
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(i) to cancel two mining permits for 
the Soledad Canyon Mine; 
(ii) to direct the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to provide additional financial and 
mineral production opportunities in ex-
change for the economic value invested to 
date on the two permits; and 
(iii) to prohibit the Secretary of the 
Interior from issuing permits for mining 
above historical levels in Soledad Canyon. 
(E) H.R. 5887 (110th Congress), the 
Soledad Canyon Mine Act— 
(i) to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
Land Management, to cancel mining con-
tracts CA–20139 and CA–22901; 
(ii) to prohibit future mining in the 
Soledad Canyon; 
(iii) to provide a means for CEMEX 
to recover as just compensation for the 
cancellation of the contracts the fair mar-
ket value of, and the expenditures and cov-
ered liabilities of Transit Mixed Concrete 
in pursuing the development of, the con-
tracts; 
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(iv) to provide the Bureau of Land 
Management with the necessary tools to 
verify the expenses incurred by CEMEX 
and provide relief to CEMEX for such ex-
penses; 
(v) to provide timelines for the 
verification of such expenses and the deter-
mination of just compensation; and 
(vi) to provide for a dispute resolution 
process. 
(F) H.R. 4332 (111th Congress), the 
Soledad Canyon High Desert, California Public 
Lands Conservation and Management Act of 
2009— 
(i) to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
Land Management, to cancel mining con-
tracts CA–20139 and CA–22901; 
(ii) to withdraw the areas that were 
subject to such contracts from further min-
eral entry under all mineral leasing and 
sales authorities available to the Secretary; 
(iii) 
to 
provide 
compensation 
to 
CEMEX for such contracts; 
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