White Sands Missile Range Security Enhancement Act

White Sands Missile Range Security Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to transfer certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army for inclusion in the White Sands Missile Range for use for military purposes.

Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register a legal description and map of the public land to be transferred.

Requires the transfer to be made without reimbursement, except that the Secretary of the Army shall reimburse the Secretary for any costs incurred in preparing the legal description and map.

Requires the Secretary, if a grazing permit or lease exists for any part of such land to be transferred, to transfer or relocate the grazing allotments associated with such permit or lease to other public land that is acceptable to the permit or lease holder so that the grazing continues to have the same value to such holder.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) establish a reservation in favor of the United States with respect to any water or water right on lands transferred by this Act, or (2) authorize the appropriation of water on lands transferred by this Act except in accordance with applicable state law.

Withdraws such land from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws and geothermal leasing laws, so long as such lands remain under the Secretary of the Army's administrative jurisdiction.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1299 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1299

     To provide for the transfer of certain public land currently 
  administered by the Bureau of Land Management to the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army for inclusion in White Sands 
           Missile Range, New Mexico, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2013

  Mr. Pearce introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for the transfer of certain public land currently 
  administered by the Bureau of Land Management to the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army for inclusion in White Sands 
           Missile Range, New Mexico, 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 ``White Sands Missile Range Security 
Enhancement Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION, WHITE SANDS MISSILE 
              RANGE, NEW MEXICO.

    (a) Transfer Required.--Not later than September 30, 2014, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall transfer to the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army certain public land 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Dona Ana County, New 
Mexico, consisting of approximately 5,100 acres depicted as ``Parcel 
1'' on the map titled ``White Sands Missile Range Land Reservation'' 
and dated January 4, 2013.
    (b) Use of Transferred Land.--Upon the receipt of the land under 
subsection (a), the Secretary of the Army shall include the land as 
part of White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and authorize use of the 
land for military purposes.
    (c) Legal Description.--
            (1) Preparation and publication.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior shall publish in the Federal Register a legal 
        description of the public land to be transferred under 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Force of law.--The legal description filed under 
        paragraph (1) shall have the same force and effect as if 
        included in this Act, except that the Secretary of the Interior 
        may correct errors in the legal description.
    (d) Reimbursement of Costs.--The transfer required by subsection 
(a) shall be made without reimbursement, except that the Secretary of 
the Army shall reimburse the Secretary of the Interior for any costs 
incurred by the Secretary of the Interior to prepare the legal 
description under subsection (c).
    (e) Treatment of Grazing Leases.--If a grazing permit or lease 
exists on the date of the enactment of this Act for any portion of the 
public land to be transferred under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
the Interior shall transfer the grazing rights associated with the 
permit or lease to other public land, acceptable to the permit or lease 
holder, so that the grazing rights continue to have the same value to 
the holder.
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