Abundant American Resources Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the BLM Director and Forest Service Chief, within three years, to complete studies, including by private contract, assigning dollar values to covered minerals in covered onshore areas under their jurisdiction. The BOEM Director must do the same for liquid, gaseous, and locatable minerals in covered offshore areas. Studies must include co-managed areas and exclude National Park System units and national monuments designated as areas of critical environmental concern before January 1, 2000. Covered onshore areas include post-1999 non-marine national monuments, ACECs, and areas withdrawn from mining, mineral leasing, or mineral materials laws. Covered offshore areas include marine national monuments, offshore withdrawn areas, and offshore moratorium areas. Liquid minerals include crude oil and gaseous minerals include natural gas.
Who Benefits and How
Mining companies, oil producers, gas producers, energy investors, and policymakers benefit from federal estimates of mineral dollar values in restricted or withdrawn public-land and offshore areas. Private contractors may benefit if agencies use contracts to complete the studies.
Who Bears the Burden and How
BLM, Forest Service, and BOEM must complete valuation studies within three years, coordinate around co-managed areas, define included and excluded lands, and potentially contract with private entities. Public-land conservation advocates may bear risk if the studies are used to support future mineral access arguments.
Key Provisions
- Requires BLM and Forest Service studies of mineral dollar values in covered onshore areas within three years.
- Requires BOEM studies of liquid, gaseous, and locatable mineral values in covered offshore areas within three years.
- Includes co-managed areas but excludes National Park System units and certain pre-2000 national monuments.
- Defines covered areas to include post-1999 national monuments, ACECs, withdrawn lands, marine national monuments, offshore withdrawals, and offshore moratoria.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires BLM, the Forest Service, and BOEM to complete three-year studies valuing liquid, gaseous, locatable, leasable, and salable minerals in specified onshore and offshore federal areas, including national monuments, ACECs, withdrawals, moratoria areas, and co-managed areas.
Key Policy Areas
Public Lands, Energy, Mining
Primary Purpose
Requires BLM, the Forest Service, and BOEM to complete three-year studies valuing liquid, gaseous, locatable, leasable, and salable minerals in specified onshore and offshore federal areas, including national monuments, ACECs, withdrawals, moratoria areas, and co-managed areas.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Mining companies
- Oil producers
- Gas producers
- Energy investors
- Private contractors
Identified Costs
- Bureau of Land Management
- Forest Service
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- Public-land conservation advocates
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, Ms. Maloy, Mr. Moore …
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Forest Service
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "blm"
- → Bureau of Land Management
- "boem"
- → Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Post-1999 non-marine national monuments, ACECs, and areas withdrawn from mining, leasing, or mineral materials laws.
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