Pecos Watershed Protection Act

Bill: 117-hr-5628
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Leger Fernandez, Teresa [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2021-10-19
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Latest action: action_date: 2021-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-10-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
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: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5628 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 19, 2021 Ms. Leger Fernandez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 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 (b) Withdrawal Subject to valid rights in existence on the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal land is withdrawn from all forms of— (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition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.