Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, for a fee, to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, specified lands in Socorro County, New Mexico, to be used for educational and research purposes. Reserves to the United States all mineral rights in such lands.
Prohibits any new patents relating to such lands under the U.S. Mining Law.
House Incorporated this Measure in S.1963 as an Amendment.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 737.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Called up by House by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
House Incorporated H.R.4971 in This Measure as an Amendment.
Message on House action received in Senate and held at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to the House amendment by Voice Vote.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 99-427.
Became Public Law No: 99-427.
Enacted as Public Law 99-427
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