Pecos Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 116-s-4599
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2020-09-16
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Lakes and rivers

Land transfers

Land use and conservation

Mining

New Mexico

Oil and gas

Watersheds
Latest action: action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-382.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-09-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Pecos Watershed Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill withdraws identified federal land in the Pecos River watershed in New Mexico from</p> <ul> <li>entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; </li> <li> location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and </li> <li> disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4599 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 16, 2020 Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To withdraw certain Federal land in the Pecos Watershed area of the State of New Mexico from mineral entry, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pecos Watershed Protection Act . 2. Withdrawal of Federal land in Pecos Watershed area, New Mexico (a) Definition of Federal land In this section, the term Federal land means the Federal land depicted as Pecos Withdrawal on the map entitled Pecos Watershed, upstream of I–25 Mineral Withdrawal and dated September 1, 2020. (b) Withdrawal Subject to valid rights in existence on the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal land is withdrawn from all forms of— (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.