Title: Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2018
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2018
This bill withdraws federal lands and interests located in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona, as well as all federally owned subsurface interests under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in lands in Pima County, from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws.
The bill also withdraws all federally owned interests in BLM lands in Pima County from entry, location, or patent under the general mining laws.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6519 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6519

  To withdraw certain Federal lands and interests located in Pima and 
Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws 
             of the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2018

 Mr. Grijalva introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To withdraw certain Federal lands and interests located in Pima and 
Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws 
             of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Southern Arizona Public Lands 
Protection Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. WITHDRAWAL OF FEDERAL LANDS AND INTERESTS LOCATED IN PIMA AND 
              SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES, ARIZONA.

    Subject to valid existing rights, after the date of enactment of 
this Act--
            (1) all federally owned interests in National Forest lands 
        in Santa Cruz County and Pima County, Arizona, are withdrawn 
        from--
                    (A) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal 
                under the public land laws;
                    (B) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
                laws; and
                    (C) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal 
                leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws;
            (2) all federally owned subsurface interests under the 
        administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in 
        lands in Pima County, Arizona, with respect to which the 
        surface interests are owned by such county, including in such 
        lands located in Davidson Canyon, are withdrawn from--
                    (A) all forms of entry, appropriation and disposal 
                under the public land laws;
                    (B) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
                laws; and
                    (C) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal 
                leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws; and
            (3) all federally owned interests in Bureau of Land 
        Management lands in Pima County, Arizona, are withdrawn from 
        entry, location, or patent under the general mining laws.
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