To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the San Felipe Pueblo certain Federal land in Sandoval County, New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-2717
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2019-05-14
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations

Historical and cultural resources

Indian lands and resources rights

Land transfers

Land use and conservation

Licensing and registrations

Livestock

New Mexico

Roads and highways
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey approximately 7,167 acres of specified land managed by the Bureau of Land Management to the San Felipe Pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2717 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 14, 2019 Ms. Haaland introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the San Felipe Pueblo certain Federal land in Sandoval County, New Mexico, and for other purposes.

1. Definitions In this Act: (1) Federal land The term Federal land means the approximately 7,167 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management designated as Proposed Conveyance—San Felipe Pueblo on the map. (2) Map The term map means the map titled Ball Ranch ACEC & Additional BLM Land and dated October 26, 2018. (3) Pueblo The term Pueblo means the San Felipe Pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico. (4) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. 2. Conveyance to San Felipe Pueblo (a) Authorization for conveyance Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Secretary receives a request from the Pueblo to convey, for no consideration, all of the Federal land (including mineral rights), subject to valid existing rights and notwithstanding the land use planning requirements of sections 202 and 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1712 , 1713), the Secretary shall convey to the Pueblo all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the Federal land. (b) Easements The conveyance under subsection (a) shall be subject to the following conditions which shall be part of the deed for the conveyed Federal land: (1) Perpetual easements shall allow for the following access roads on the Federal land to the same extent as such access roads exist on the date of the enactment of this Act: (A) An access road of approximately 2.4 miles to the Hamaatsa inholding. (B) An access road of approximately 1.8 miles to the Baca Family inholding. (2) Subject to agreement with the Pueblo, a perpetual easement to allow federally recognized Indian Tribes to access and be on the conveyed Federal land in order to access cultural sites and for cultural and religious practices on the Federal land. (3) A requirement that the Pueblo maintain the access roads referred to in paragraph (1) to the same engineering standards that the Bureau of Land Management was required to maintain such roads on the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Grazing If Federal land is subject to a lease, permit, or contract for the grazing of domestic livestock in effect on the date of the conveyance of the Federal land under this Act, the grazing may, at the discretion of the Pueblo, continue for the remainder of the term of the lease, permit, or contract, subject to the related terms and conditions of user agreements, including permitted stocking rates, grazing fee levels, access, and ownership and use of range improvements. (d) Costs The United States shall pay all costs of the conveyance under subsection (a).