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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2135 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for an exchange of certain Federal and non-Federal land in |
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| 6 | 6 | | Artesia, New Mexico, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. L |
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| 10 | 10 | | EGERFERNANDEZ(for herself and Mr. FRY) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To provide for an exchange of certain Federal and non- |
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| 14 | 14 | | Federal land in Artesia, New Mexico, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Caza Ranches LLC 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | and Department of Homeland Security Land Exchange 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Act of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. LAND EXCHANGE. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) D |
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| 23 | 23 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (1) C |
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| 25 | 25 | | ENTERS.—The term ‘‘Centers’’ means the 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers and re-10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | lated facilities that are located in Artesia, New Mex-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ico. 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) F |
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| 33 | 33 | | EDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’ 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | means the approximately 160 acres of land in 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Artesia, New Mexico, generally depicted as 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘FLETC/DHS Federal Land to be Exchanged to 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | CAZA’’, with the following identification and de-7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | scription: 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) I |
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| 40 | 40 | | DENTIFICATION.—Parcel Number: 4– 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 149–096–266–460. 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) D |
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| 43 | 43 | | ESCRIPTION.—Township 16 South, 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Range 25 East, Section 35: S |
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| 46 | 46 | | ⁄2S |
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| 47 | 47 | | 1 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ⁄2. 12 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (3) M |
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| 50 | 50 | | AP.—The term ‘‘Map’’ means a map de-13 |
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| 51 | 51 | | picting the Federal land and the non-Federal land, 14 |
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| 52 | 52 | | as agreed to by the Centers and Caza Ranches LLC. 15 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (4) N |
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| 54 | 54 | | ON-FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘non-Fed-16 |
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| 55 | 55 | | eral Land’’ means the approximately 160 acres of 17 |
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| 56 | 56 | | land owned by Caza Ranches LLC, generally de-18 |
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| 57 | 57 | | picted as ‘‘CAZA to be Exchanged to FLETC/DHS 19 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Federal Land’’ on the Map, but does not include any 20 |
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| 59 | 59 | | subsurface rights to the land vested in a third party, 21 |
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| 60 | 60 | | with the following identification and description: 22 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (A) I |
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| 62 | 62 | | DENTIFICATION.—Parcel Number: 4– 23 |
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| 63 | 63 | | 147–097–132–132. 24 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (B) DESCRIPTION.—Township 17 South, 1 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Range 25 East, Section 4: NW |
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| 70 | 70 | | ⁄4. 2 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (5) S |
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| 72 | 72 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 3 |
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| 73 | 73 | | the Secretary of Homeland Security. 4 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (b) E |
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| 75 | 75 | | XCHANGE OFLANDS.— 5 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (1) I |
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| 77 | 77 | | N GENERAL.—Upon receiving an offer 6 |
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| 78 | 78 | | from the Caza Ranches LLC to convey to the Sec-7 |
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| 79 | 79 | | retary all right, title, and interest of the Caza 8 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Ranches LLC in and to the non-Federal land, the 9 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Secretary is authorized to accept the offer and to 10 |
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| 82 | 82 | | convey to Caza Ranches LLC all right, title, and in-11 |
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| 83 | 83 | | terest of the United States in and to the Federal 12 |
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| 84 | 84 | | land. 13 |
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| 85 | 85 | | (2) L |
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| 86 | 86 | | AND TITLE.—Title to the non-Federal 14 |
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| 87 | 87 | | land conveyed to the Secretary under this section 15 |
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| 88 | 88 | | shall conform to the title approval standards of the 16 |
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| 89 | 89 | | Attorney General of the United States applicable to 17 |
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| 90 | 90 | | land acquisitions by the Federal Government. 18 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (c) E |
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| 92 | 92 | | XCHANGETERMS ANDAPPRAISALS.— 19 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (1) I |
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| 94 | 94 | | N GENERAL.—The exchange of Federal 20 |
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| 95 | 95 | | and non-Federal lands under subsection (b) shall be 21 |
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| 96 | 96 | | subject to the following: 22 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (A) Any valid existing rights as of the date 23 |
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| 98 | 98 | | of the enactment of this section. 24 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (B) Any additional terms and conditions 1 |
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| 103 | 103 | | the Secretary determines appropriate to protect 2 |
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| 104 | 104 | | the interests of the United States, including 3 |
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| 105 | 105 | | with respect to any of the rights referred to in 4 |
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| 106 | 106 | | subparagraph (A). 5 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (2) C |
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| 108 | 108 | | OSTS.—The costs of carrying out the ex-6 |
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| 109 | 109 | | change of lands under subsection (b) shall be shared 7 |
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| 110 | 110 | | equally by the Secretary and the Caza Ranches 8 |
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| 111 | 111 | | LLC. 9 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (3) E |
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| 113 | 113 | | QUAL VALUE EXCHANGE .—The value of 10 |
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| 114 | 114 | | the lands exchanged under subsection (b) shall be 11 |
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| 115 | 115 | | deemed equal. 12 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (4) M |
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| 117 | 117 | | EMORIALIZATION.—All terms and condi-13 |
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| 118 | 118 | | tions for the exchange of lands under subsection (b) 14 |
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| 119 | 119 | | shall be memorialized in a written exchange agree-15 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ment that is signed by Caza Ranches LLC and the 16 |
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| 121 | 121 | | Secretary. 17 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (d) A |
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| 123 | 123 | | CQUISITION OFLAND FORTRAININGPURPOSES 18 |
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| 124 | 124 | | B |
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| 125 | 125 | | OUNDARYADJUSTMENT.—On acceptance of title to the 19 |
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| 126 | 126 | | non-Federal land by the Secretary— 20 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (1) the non-Federal land shall be added to and 21 |
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| 128 | 128 | | administered as part of the Centers; 22 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (2) the Centers shall use such land to erect 23 |
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| 130 | 130 | | structures in support of the Federal Law Enforce-24 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ment Training Centers’ training mission; and 25 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (3) the boundaries of the Centers shall be ad-1 |
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| 136 | 136 | | justed to exclude the exchanged Federal land. 2 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (e) M |
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| 138 | 138 | | APS, ESTIMATES, ANDDESCRIPTIONS.— 3 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (1) M |
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| 140 | 140 | | INOR ERRORS.—The Secretary and the 4 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Caza Ranches LLC may, by mutual agreement, 5 |
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| 142 | 142 | | carry out the following: 6 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (A) Make minor boundary adjustments to 7 |
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| 144 | 144 | | the Federal and non-Federal lands involved in 8 |
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| 145 | 145 | | the exchange under this section. 9 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (B) Correct any minor errors in the Map 10 |
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| 147 | 147 | | or any other map, acreage estimate, or legal de-11 |
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| 148 | 148 | | scription of any such lands. 12 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (2) C |
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| 150 | 150 | | ONFLICT.—If there is a conflict between a 13 |
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| 151 | 151 | | map, an acreage estimate, or a legal description of 14 |
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| 152 | 152 | | the lands involved in the exchange under this sec-15 |
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| 153 | 153 | | tion, the Map shall control unless the Secretary and 16 |
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| 154 | 154 | | the Caza Ranches LLC mutually agree otherwise. 17 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (3) A |
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| 156 | 156 | | VAILABILITY.—The Secretary shall file 18 |
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| 157 | 157 | | and make available for public inspection in the New 19 |
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| 158 | 158 | | Mexico headquarters of the Department of Home-20 |
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| 159 | 159 | | land Security a copy of the Map and any other map 21 |
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| 160 | 160 | | referred to in this section. 22 |
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| 161 | 161 | | Æ |
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