Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act

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Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary), at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer certain National Forest land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the Pueblo, if a land exchange with the Pueblo required by that Act is not completed within 30 days of this Act's enactment.

Identifies that land as National Forest land generally depicted as "Land to be Held in Trust" on the map entitled "Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act" and dated October 18, 2013.

Requires such National Forest land to remain undeveloped in its natural state.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the Pueblo and after the transfer of the National Forest land is complete, to: (1) transfer to the Secretary the Pueblo's La Luz tract and a conservation easement on its Piedra Lisa tract, and (2) grant to the Secretary a right-of-way for the Piedra Lisa Trail within the Piedra Lisa tract.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3605 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3605

To make a technical amendment to the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust 
                   Area Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2013

  Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico (for herself, Mr. Ben Ray 
  Lujan of New Mexico, and Mr. Pearce) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To make a technical amendment to the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust 
                   Area Act, 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 ``Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical 
Amendment Act''.

SEC. 2. SANDIA PUEBLO SETTLEMENT TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

    Section 413(b) of the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act 
(16 U.S.C. 539m-11(b)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (4), by striking 
        ``conveyance'' and inserting ``title to be conveyed''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Failure to exchange.--
                    ``(A) In general.--If the land exchange authorized 
                under paragraph (1) is not completed by the date that 
                is 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
                paragraph, the Secretary, on request of the Pueblo and 
                the Secretary of the Interior, shall transfer the 
                National Forest land generally depicted as `Land to be 
                Held in Trust' on the map entitled `Sandia Pueblo 
                Settlement Technical Amendment Act' and dated October 
                18, 2013, to the Secretary of the Interior to be held 
                in trust by the United States for the Pueblo--
                            ``(i) subject to the restriction enforced 
                        by the Secretary of the Interior that the land 
                        remain undeveloped, with the natural 
                        characteristics of the land to be preserved in 
                        perpetuity; and
                            ``(ii) consistent with subsection (c).
                    ``(B) Other transfers.--After the transfer under 
                subparagraph (A) is complete, the Secretary of the 
                Interior, with the consent of the Pueblo, shall--
                            ``(i) transfer to the Secretary, consistent 
                        with section 411(c)--
                                    ``(I) the La Luz tract generally 
                                depicted on the map entitled `Sandia 
                                Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment 
                                Act' and dated October 18, 2013; and
                                    ``(II) the conservation easement 
                                for the Piedra Lisa tract generally 
                                depicted on the map entitled `Sandia 
                                Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment 
                                Act' and dated October 18, 2013; and
                            ``(ii) grant to the Secretary a right-of-
                        way for the Piedra Lisa Trail within the Piedra 
                        Lisa tract generally depicted on the map 
                        entitled `Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical 
                        Amendment Act' and dated October 18, 2013.''.
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