To prohibit the implementation of the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

Bill: 119-hr-230
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-07
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Coal

Department of the Interior

Mining

Wyoming
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from implementing, administering, or enforcing its 2024 Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for its Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming. The field office manages 780,291 acres of public lands and 4,731,140 acres of mineral estates within Campbell, Johnson, and Sheridan Counties in north-central Wyoming.</p><p>In 2015, the&nbsp;BLM published a management plan for the field office that allowed leases of certain public lands or mineral estates&nbsp;within the office's planning area for the development of coal.&nbsp;</p><p>In 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in&nbsp;<em>Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management&nbsp;</em>ordered the BLM to complete a new environmental impact statement&nbsp;(EIS) for the management plan under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which requires an agency to include all reasonable alternatives to its action and the environmental impacts resulting from the action. Specifically, the court ordered the&nbsp;BLM to issue an EIS that considers an alternative of not leasing coal under the management plan as well as an alternative that limits the amount of coal potentially available for leasing.</p><p>In response to the court order, the BLM published an amendment to the plan on November 27, 2024. The amended plan made no acres within the office's planning area available for future coal leasing in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, it allowed existing coal leases to be developed.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 230 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 7, 2025 Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To prohibit the implementation of the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

1. Restriction on Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of Bureau of Land Management The Secretary of the Interior may not implement, administer, or enforce the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management referred to in the notice of availability published by the Bureau of Land Management titled Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo Field Office, Wyoming (89 Fed. Reg. 93650; published November 27, 2024).