HR6869-118

1. Withdrawal of certain land within San Bernardino National Forest Congress finds the following: The Department of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, has implemented a strategy known as the Carbonate Habitat Management Strategy to conserve listed threatened and endangered species where minerals co-occur with those species’ habitats to allow for species conservation and efficient administration of mining activities on the San Bernardino National Forest. The withdrawal of certain land in the San Bernardino National Forest will help preserve habitat to protect 4 listed threatened and endangered plant species from the effects of mineral development and other forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws. Subject to valid existing rights, the Proposed Withdrawal is withdrawn from all forms of— entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. The withdrawal under subsection (b) shall take effect— on the date of the enactment of this section, with respect to Federal land; and on the date the land is acquired by the United States, with respect to non-Federal land. In this section: The term Federal land means the approximately 2,775 acres of land generally depicted on the Map as National Forest Land within the Proposed Withdrawal. The term Map means the map titled Proposed Mineral Withdrawal, San Bernardino National Forest, Mountaintop Ranger District and dated October 19, 2020. The term non-Federal land means the approximately 280 acres of land generally depicted on the Map as Non-National Forest Land within the Proposed Withdrawal. The term Proposed Withdrawal means the approximately 3,055 acres of land generally depicted on the Map as Proposed Withdrawal.