Keeping Public Lands Out of Adversarial Hands Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7074 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7074

To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of 
   the Interior on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2026

Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Mr. Rose, Mrs. Hinson, 
and Mr. Ezell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on 
     Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, 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 amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of 
   the Interior on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
                    States, 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 ``Keeping Public Lands Out of 
Adversarial Hands Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ON THE COMMITTEE ON 
              FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND CONSIDERATION 
              OF CERTAIN LAND OR RESOURCE TRANSACTIONS.

    (a) Inclusion on the Committee.--Section 721(k) of the Defense 
Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(k)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(8) Inclusion of the secretary of the interior.--The 
        Secretary of the Interior shall be a member of the Committee 
        with respect to a covered transaction that involves land or 
        resources adjacent to land or sites owned or managed by--
                    ``(A) the Bureau of Land Management;
                    ``(B) the Bureau of Reclamation;
                    ``(C) the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
                    ``(D) the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management;
                    ``(E) the National Park Service; and
                    ``(F) the United States Fish and Wildlife 
                Service.''.
    (b) Consideration of Certain Land or Resource Transactions.--
Section 721(b)(1) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(I) Consideration of certain land or resource 
                transactions.--
                            ``(i) In general.--After receiving 
                        notification from the Secretary of the Interior 
                        of a reportable land or resource transaction, 
                        the Committee shall determine--
                                    ``(I) whether the transaction is a 
                                covered transaction; and
                                    ``(II) if the Committee determines 
                                that the transaction is a covered 
                                transaction, whether the Committee 
                                should initiate a review pursuant to 
                                subparagraph (D), or take another 
                                action authorized under this section, 
                                with respect to the reportable land or 
                                resource transaction.
                            ``(ii) Reportable land or resource 
                        transaction.--In this subparagraph, the term 
                        `reportable land or resource transaction' means 
                        a transaction--
                                    ``(I) that the Secretary of the 
                                Interior has reason to believe is a 
                                covered transaction; and
                                    ``(II) that involves the 
                                acquisition of an interest in land or 
                                resource by a foreign person of the 
                                People's Republic of China, the 
                                Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 
                                the Russian Federation, or the Islamic 
                                Republic of Iran.
                            ``(iii) Sunset.--The requirements under 
                        this subparagraph shall terminate, with respect 
                        to a foreign person of the respective foreign 
                        country, on the date that the People's Republic 
                        of China, the Democratic People's Republic of 
                        Korea, the Russian Federation, or the Islamic 
                        Republic of Iran, as the case may be, is 
                        removed from the list of foreign adversaries in 
                        section 791.4 of title 15, Code of Federal 
                        Regulations.''.
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