§539m–7 Subdivisions and Other Property Interests

Summary

Removes several specific Pueblo-owned places from the Area and says who controls them and what access is allowed. Subdivisions, the Piedra Lisa tract, the La Luz tract, the land with the crest facilities, and land covered by the special use permit are excluded from the Area. The Pueblo has no civil or criminal authority over those excluded lands, and Pueblo laws do not apply there. State and local authority stays in place unless a listed tract is transferred to the United States and held in trust for the Pueblo. One such tract is about 35 contiguous, nonsubdivided acres in the northern section of Evergreen Hills that the Pueblo owned in fee on February 20, 2003; that tract must be transferred to the United States and held in trust, and trust lands are subject to the use limits in sections 539m to 539m–12. Other Pueblo fee properties inside the subdivisions that are not separately listed are also excluded and follow these same rules. Grants permanent rights-of-way and access. The Secretary of the Interior must give the County of Bernalillo perpetual road rights-of-way for Tramway Road, Juniper Hill Road North, Juniper Hill Road South, Sandia Heights Road, and Juan Tabo Canyon Road (Forest Road No. 333), with limits on widening or other uses unless the Pueblo agrees, though routine road maintenance does not need Pueblo approval. The Secretary must also grant perpetual utility rights-of-way for gas, power, water, telecom, and cable in existing corridors (with some water-line exceptions) and generally require new utilities to be placed underground unless the Pueblo agrees otherwise. The Secretary must keep Forest Service Road 333D in adequate condition under section 3210(a). The Secretary will also grant perpetual Forest Service trail rights-of-way for portions of Trail No. 84 (Crest Spur), Trail No. 365A (Foothills extension), and Trail No. 135 (Piedra Lisa North-South).