Title: To provide that section 216 of Executive Order 14008 shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill prohibits from having the force and effect of law a provision of Executive Order 14008 (86 Fed. Reg. 7619), titled Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, that requires the Department of the Interior to recommend steps to achieve the goal of conserving at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
The President and each federal agency may not take specified actions with respect to that provision of Executive Order 14008, any successor executive order, or a program, campaign, or effort with similar goals, including the America the Beautiful campaign.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5042 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5042

  To provide that section 216 of Executive Order 14008 shall have no 
                force or effect, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 17, 2021

  Ms. Cheney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that section 216 of Executive Order 14008 shall have no 
                force or effect, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON EXECUTIVE BRANCH ACQUISITION OF LAND.

    (a) In General.--Section 216 of Executive Order 14008 (86 Fed. Reg. 
7619; relating to tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad) shall 
have no force or effect.
    (b) Executive Branch Action Restricted.--The President, and each 
Federal agency, may not--
            (1) take an action if the sole authorization for such 
        action is a report or recommendation initiated pursuant to a 
        covered Executive order or campaign;
            (2) mandate that a State, Tribal, or local government 
        adopt, or participate in, specific conservation practices 
        developed as the result of a report or recommendation initiated 
        pursuant to a covered Executive order or campaign;
            (3) with respect to private property owners who do not wish 
        to sell their property to the Federal Government, use Federal 
        agency programs or funds to acquire private property from such 
        private property owners in order to increase Federal holdings 
        of public lands based on a report or recommendation initiated 
        pursuant to a covered Executive order or campaign; or
            (4) with respect to private land, mandate that the owners 
        of such land adopt, or participate in, conservation practices 
        developed as the result of a report or recommendation initiated 
        pursuant to a covered Executive order or campaign.
    (c) DOI Payment of Property Taxes.--On an annual basis, with 
respect to any private land acquired by the Federal Government as the 
result of a report or recommendation initiated pursuant to a covered 
Executive order or campaign, the Secretary of the Interior shall pay to 
each county the amount such land would be assessed for property taxes, 
as determined by the county, if such land remained private land.
    (d) Covered Order or Campaign Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered Executive order or campaign'' means--
            (1) section 216 of Executive Order 14008 (86 Fed. Reg. 
        7619; relating to tackling the climate crisis at home and 
        abroad);
            (2) any successor Executive order; and
            (3) a program, campaign, or effort with similar goals to 
        section 216 of Executive Order 14008, including the America the 
        Beautiful campaign.
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