Sec. 2962. MANAGEMENT AND USE OF TRANSFERRED LAND
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## SEC. 2962 MANAGEMENT AND USE OF TRANSFERRED LAND ###
(a)Treatment and Use of Transferred Land Upon the receipt of the land under section 2961— ####
(1)the land shall be treated as property (as defined in section 102(9) of title 40, United States Code) under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy; and ####
(2)the Secretary of the Navy shall administer the land as the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, and continue to authorize use of the land for military purposes. ###
(b)Protection of Desert Tortoise Nothing in the transfer required by section 2961 shall affect the prior designation of certain lands within the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range as critical habitat for the desert tortoise (Gopherus Agassizii). ###
(c)Withdrawal of Mineral Estate Subject to valid existing rights, the mineral estate of the land to be transferred under section 2961 is withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws, the mineral leasing laws, and geothermal leasing laws, for as long as the land is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy. ###
(d)Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan Not later than one year after the transfer of the land under section 2961, the Secretary of the Navy, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall prepare an integrated natural resources management plan pursuant to the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670a et seq.) for the transferred land and for land that, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, is under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy underlying the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. ###
(e)Relation to General Provisions Subtitle A does not apply to the land transferred under section 2961 or to the management of such land as provided for in this subtitle.
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MANAGEMENT AND USE OF TRANSFERRED LAND
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