1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Save Oak Flat Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) section 3003 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. Buck McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 ( 16 U.S.C. 539p ) authorizes the approximately 2,422 acres of Forest Service land in the Tonto National Forest in southeastern Arizona commonly known as Oak Flat (referred to in this section as Oak Flat ), which is sacred to Indian tribes in the region and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, to be transferred to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (referred to in this section as Resolution Copper ); (2) Resolution Copper plans to hold Oak Flat privately for a mining project that will— (A) result in the physical destruction of tribal sacred areas and deprive American Indians from practicing their religious ceremonies and other traditional practices; (B) create significant negative environmental impacts by destroying Oak Flat and depleting and contaminating precious water resources; and (C) require significant quantities of water, which will— (i) likely affect the local hydrology, including the underlying aquifer; and (ii) result in polluted water that will seep into drinking water supplies; (3) (A) once Resolution Copper owns Oak Flat, Resolution Copper plans to use the highly destructive block cave mining method to remove 1 cubic mile of ore that (as of the date of enactment of this Act) is located 7,000 feet beneath the surface of the earth without replacing any of the earth removed, because that is the cheapest form of mining; and (B) Resolution Copper admits that the surface of Oak Flat will subside and ultimately collapse, destroying forever the tribal sacred areas described in paragraph (2)(A)