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Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Transfer Act of 2013

Introduced: April 23, 2013 Introduced by: Vargas, Juan Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 24, 2013
Committee on Armed Services discharged.
Jun 24, 2013
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 89.
Jun 24, 2013
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-124, Part I.
May 15, 2013
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
May 15, 2013
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
May 15, 2013
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
May 6, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Apr 26, 2013
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
Apr 23, 2013
Introduced in House
Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Transfer Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy administrative jurisdiction over certain public lands in Imperial and Riverside Counties, California, for inclusion within the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. Withdraws the mineral estate of such land from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws and the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, for as long as the land is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy.

Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prepare an integrated natural resources management plan with respect to the transferred lands.

Requires the Secretary of the Navy, upon determining that there is no longer a military need for the lands transferred, to transfer such lands back to the Secretary of the Interior. Requires appropriate land decontamination preceding the retransfer.

Amends the California Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflights Act of 1994 to extend a land withdrawal and reservation period consistent with the above transfer.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect existing water rights on the transferred lands.

What's happening now June 24, 2013

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 89.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1691: Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Transfer Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1691/
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