Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Government Operations, Energy.
Who Benefits and How
environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025.
- Section idde206231636843ba87390b999519aeb0: 2. Findings Congress finds that— there are archeological, sacred, and historic resources located throughout the Greater Chaco region, which spans the States of...
- Section idd5499d07454b4a0ba4200220d993d74d: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term covered lease means any oil or gas lease for Federal land— on which drilling operations have not been commenced before the...
- Section idf5ffe42c670444adbbda3db160506948: 4. Withdrawal of certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico Subject to any valid existing rights, the Federal land is withdrawn from— all forms of entry,...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations, Energy
Primary Purpose
This bill, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Luján (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
any oil or gas lease for Federal land— on which drilling operations have not been commenced before the end of the primary term of the applicable lease
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