I just want to make it clear that in the Chaco [Canyon] case, there was no land transfer. All of that land remained in public hands. There was a mineral withdrawal that was designed to protect thousands of individual archeological and cultural sites.
Clarifying Chaco Canyon protections in Senate Committee meeting.
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