Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This joint resolution disapproves the Bureau of Land Management's Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment under the Congressional Review Act. The text cites a Government Accountability Office opinion concluding that the BLM planning decision is a CRA-covered rule. The legal result is that the Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment has no force or effect for the Miles City Field Office area in Montana.
Who Benefits and How
Oil and gas operators, coal and hardrock mining interests, grazing permittees, and other public-land users in the Miles City Field Office area benefit because the resolution removes the BLM planning amendment as a binding source of land-use limits, mitigation duties, or access restrictions. Project sponsors may gain more room to seek leases, permits, rights-of-way, or grazing approvals under earlier or remaining land-management rules.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Bureau of Land Management bears the operational burden of treating the Miles City amendment as void and falling back to other governing plans, statutes, and site-specific reviews when deciding public-land uses. Conservation groups, wildlife advocates, neighboring landowners, and communities that favored the amendment lose the planning protections or constraints embedded in that BLM decision, and the CRA limits BLM's ability to issue a substantially similar replacement without new authorization.
Key Provisions
- Blocks the BLM Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment from having force or effect under the Congressional Review Act.
- Limits BLM from issuing a substantially similar replacement rule unless Congress authorizes it.
- Directs future land-use, leasing, grazing, or right-of-way decisions back to remaining statutes, prior plans, and site-specific review.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Nullifies the Bureau of Land Management's Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment under the Congressional Review Act.
Key Policy Areas
Natural Resources, Energy, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
Nullifies the Bureau of Land Management's Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment under the Congressional Review Act.
Policy Domains
CRA disapproval of Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Miles City area oil and gas operators
- Public-land grazing permittees
- Mining and mineral-development interests
- Energy and public-land contractors
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Bureau of Land Management
- Conservation and wildlife advocates
- Communities relying on the Miles City amendment's land-use protections
- Department of the Interior
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Signed into LawBecame Public Law No: 119-48.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. …
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay …
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6995-7003)
Measure laid before Senate by motion.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in …
Received in the Senate, read twice.
On the Joint Resolution H.J.Res. 104
H. J. Res. 104
On the Motion to Proceed H.J.Res. 104
Motion to Proceed to H. J. Res. 104
On Passage
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule…
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "bureau_of_land_management"
- → Bureau of Land Management
- "government_accountability_office"
- → Government Accountability Office
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