Arizona HCM2009: subsurface minerals; access; federal policy

What the bill says

To amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 and extend the Wyoming exception to Arizona so that no new national monuments can be designated in this state without the express authorization of the United States Congress, the Legislature of the State of Arizona and necessary local governments. (b) Quantify the amount of state trust subsurface mineral rights that are located under federal land withdrawals and compensate states for the value of those subsurface minerals that state land departments are prohibited from accessing due to land withdrawals. 2. That the President of the United States take all ne.

From the enrolled text, June 1, 2026:

to amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 and extend the Wyoming exception to Arizona so that no new national monuments can be designated in this state without the express authorization of the United States Congress, the Legislature of the State of Arizona and necessary local governments. (b) Quantify the amount of state trust subsurface mineral rights that are located under federal land withdrawals and compensate states for the value of those subsurface minerals that state land departments are prohibited from accessing due to land withdrawals. 2. That the President of the United States take all necessary policy steps to streamline the permitting process for new mines in the West to increase the ease, speed and ability of private parties to gain access to federal land for critical mineral exploration. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Bureau of Land Management work with state legislatures, state land departments, the private industry and private land owners to develop a comprehensive plan to engage in a series of strategic land swaps and subsurface mineral swaps to eliminate the checkerboard patterns of both the surface and subsurface estates and eliminate the split estate in as many places as possible. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior direct the Bureau of Land Management to perform a rulemaking that rescinds paragraphs …

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