[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1512 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1512

    To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
  monuments in New Mexico except by express authorization of Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2013

  Mr. Pearce introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
  monuments in New Mexico except by express authorization of Congress.

    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 ``New Mexico Land Sovereignty Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON FURTHER EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL 
              MONUMENTS IN NEW MEXICO.

    This proviso of the last sentence of the first section of the Act 
of September 14, 1950 (64 Stat. 849, chapter 950; 16 U.S.C. 431a), is 
amended by inserting ``or New Mexico'' after ``Wyoming''.
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