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H.R. 1043: La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
119th Congress · introduced 2025-02-06 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: By Senator Lee from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 119-109.
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La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
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La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act This act directs the Department of the Interior, after receiving a request from La Paz County, Arizona, to convey approximately 3,400 acres of identified land managed by the Bureau of Land Management to the county for fair market value. Interior must exclude from the conveyance any federal land that contains significant cultural, environmental, wildlife, or recreational resources. As a condition of the conveyance, La Paz County and any subsequent owner must make good faith efforts to avoid disturbing tribal artifacts; minimize impacts on tribal artifacts if they are disturbed; coordinate with the Colorado River Indian Tribes Tribal Historic Preservation Office to identify artifacts of cultural and historic significance; and allow tribal representatives to rebury unearthed artifacts at, or near, where they were discovered. The federal land is withdrawn from the operation of U.S. mining and mineral leasing laws, and thus the land is not available for new mining claims, new mineral or geothermal leases, nor sales of mineral materials. The county must pay all costs related to the conveyance.
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La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
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Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] · 2 cosponsors
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- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119hr1043.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr>
Record fed-us-cong119-hr1043 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills