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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1997 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue certain Records of Decision 
and Resource Management Plans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2025 
Mr. HURD of Colorado (for himself, Mr. LAMALFA, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. 
ZINKE, Mr. DOWNING, Mr. EVANS of Colorado, and Mr. BENTZ) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue certain 
Records of Decision and Resource Management Plans. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Productive Public 
Lands Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ADMINISTRATION OF RECORDS OF DECISION. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, 
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shall reissue each of the following and update the pre-
ferred alternative accordingly: 
(1) The Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision 
and Approved Resource Management Plan Amend-
ment, dated November 2024, selecting alternative B 
as the preferred alternative. 
(2) The Record of Decision and Approved 
Grand Junction Field Office Resource Management 
Plan, dated October 2024, selecting alternative A as 
the preferred alternative. 
(3) The Record of Decision and Approved Colo-
rado River Valley Field Office Resource Manage-
ment Plan, dated October 2024, selecting alternative 
B as the preferred alternative. 
(4) The Miles City Field Office Record of Deci-
sion and Approved Resource Management Plan, 
dated November 2024, selecting alternative A as the 
preferred alternative. 
(5) The Rock Springs Field Office Record of 
Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan, 
dated December 2024, selecting alternative C as the 
preferred alternative. 
(6) The Record of Decision and Approved East-
ern Colorado Resource Management Plan: Royal 
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Gorge Field Office, dated January 2024, selecting 
alternative A or C as the preferred alternative. 
(7) The Record of Decision and Approved Re-
source Management Plan Amendment for Big Game 
Habitat Conservation for Oil and Gas Management 
in Colorado, dated October 2024, selecting alter-
native A as the preferred alternative. 
(8) The Lakeview Record of Decision and Ap-
proved Resource Management Plan Amendment, 
dated January 2025, selecting alternative A as the 
preferred alternative. 
(9) The Gunnison Sage-Grouse Record of Deci-
sion and Approved Resource Management Plan 
Amendment, dated October 2024, selecting alter-
native A as the preferred alternative. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORITY. 
The documents reissued under section 2 and the pre-
ferred alternatives selected therein— 
(1) shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements 
of the National Environmental Policy Act (42 
U.S.C. 4331 et seq.), the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and sub-
chapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States 
Code (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Administrative 
Procedure Act’’); and 
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(2) do not require any additional environmental 
analysis. 
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