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 "North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This joint resolution disapproves the Bureau of Land Management's North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan 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 North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan has no force or effect for BLM-managed lands in North Dakota.
Who Benefits and How
Oil and gas producers, mineral developers, grazing permittees, and other companies seeking access to BLM-managed lands in North Dakota benefit because the disapproval removes the new field-office plan as a binding source of land-use limits or mitigation requirements. They may face fewer planning-level obstacles when applying for leases, permits, rights-of-way, or grazing authorizations under the remaining legal framework.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Bureau of Land Management bears the administrative burden of unwinding reliance on the North Dakota plan and managing applications under earlier plans, statutes, and project-level review. Conservation organizations, wildlife-habitat advocates, neighboring communities, and landowners that supported the plan lose the planning constraints or protections it supplied, while CRA rules restrict a substantially similar replacement without new congressional authorization.
Key Provisions
- Blocks the BLM North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan 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 North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan under the Congressional Review Act.
Key Policy Areas
Natural Resources, Energy, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
Nullifies the Bureau of Land Management's North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan under the Congressional Review Act.
Policy Domains
CRA disapproval of North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- North Dakota oil and gas producers
- Public-land grazing permittees
- Mineral-development companies
- Energy and public-land contractors
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Bureau of Land Management
- Wildlife-habitat advocates
- Communities relying on the North Dakota plan's protections
- Department of the Interior
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
Signed into LawBecame Public Law No: 119-49.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 45. …
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay …
Measure laid before Senate by motion.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in …
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On the Joint Resolution H.J.Res. 105
H. J. Res. 105
On the Motion to Proceed H.J.Res. 105
Motion to Proceed to H. J. Res. 105
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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