A bill to provide that the conveyance by the Bureau of Land Management of the surface estate to certain land in the State of Wyoming in exchange for certain private land will not result in the removal of the land from operation of the mining laws.

This bill in the 106th Congress, designated as S. 1030 and introduced on May 13, 1999, aims to ensure that the transfer of the surface estate of specified land in Wyoming by the Bureau of Land Management, in exchange for privately owned land, does not exempt the land from the application of mining laws.