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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-602
LAND GRANT-MERCEDES TRADITIONAL USE
RECOGNITION AND CONSULTATION ACT
NOVEMBER 19, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3682]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3682) to provide for greater consultation between the
Federal Government and the governing bodies of land grant-mer-
cedes and acequias in New Mexico and to provide for a process for
recognition of the historic-traditional boundaries of land grant-mer-
cedes, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill
as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Land Grant-Mercedes Traditional Use Recognition
and Consultation Act.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) ACEQUIA.-The term acequia has the meaning of the term community
ditch as that term is construed under New Mexico Stat. 73-2-27.
(2) COMMUNITY USER.-The term community user means an heir (as defined
under the laws of the State) of a qualified land grant-merced.
(3) GOVERNING BODY.-The term governing body means the board of trust-
ees authorized under State law with the control, care, and management of a
qualified land grant-merced.
(4) HISTORICAL-TRADITIONAL USE.-The term historical-traditional use
means, for a qualified land grant-merced, for noncommercial benefit-
(A) the use of water;
(B) religious or cultural use and protection;
(C) gathering herbs;
(D) gathering wood products;
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