119th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 230To prohibit the implementation of the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

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

Public lands and natural resources
Introduced Jan 7, 2025
Last action Jan 7, 2025
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Jan 7, 2025
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Referred
Jan 7, 2025
Natural Resources
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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SummaryCRS Summary

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. In 2015, the BLM published a management plan for the field office that allowed leases of certain public lands or mineral estates within the office's planning area for the development of coal.  In 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management order...

Provisions · 1 sectionsIntroduced in House
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Timeline · 2 actions
Jan 7, 2025
Introduced in House
Jan 7, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.