Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2025-04-10
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-04-10
Previously
- Energy and Natural Resources CommitteeReferred To · 2025-04-10
Plain-English Summary
Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025 This bill creates a buffer zone around the Chaco Culture National Historic Park in New Mexico by prohibiting certain leases on federal land for the development of mineral resources or geothermal energy within the buffer zone. Nonproducing oil and gas leases in the buffer zone are terminated.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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