Productive Public Lands Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1997 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1997

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue certain Records of 
                Decision and Resource Management Plans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2025

Mr. Hurd of Colorado (for himself, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Zinke, 
   Mr. Downing, Mr. Evans of Colorado, and Mr. Bentz) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue certain Records of 
                Decision and Resource Management Plans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Productive Public Lands Act''.

SEC. 2. ADMINISTRATION OF RECORDS OF DECISION.

    Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management, shall reissue each of the following and 
update the preferred alternative accordingly:
            (1) The Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and 
        Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, dated November 
        2024, selecting alternative B as the preferred alternative.
            (2) The Record of Decision and Approved Grand Junction 
        Field Office Resource Management Plan, dated October 2024, 
        selecting alternative A as the preferred alternative.
            (3) The Record of Decision and Approved Colorado River 
        Valley Field Office Resource Management Plan, dated October 
        2024, selecting alternative B as the preferred alternative.
            (4) The Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and 
        Approved Resource Management Plan, dated November 2024, 
        selecting alternative A as the preferred alternative.
            (5) The Rock Springs Field Office Record of Decision and 
        Approved Resource Management Plan, dated December 2024, 
        selecting alternative C as the preferred alternative.
            (6) The Record of Decision and Approved Eastern Colorado 
        Resource Management Plan: Royal Gorge Field Office, dated 
        January 2024, selecting alternative A or C as the preferred 
        alternative.
            (7) The Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management 
        Plan Amendment for Big Game Habitat Conservation for Oil and 
        Gas Management in Colorado, dated October 2024, selecting 
        alternative A as the preferred alternative.
            (8) The Lakeview Record of Decision and Approved Resource 
        Management Plan Amendment, dated January 2025, selecting 
        alternative A as the preferred alternative.
            (9) The Gunnison Sage-Grouse Record of Decision and 
        Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, dated October 
        2024, selecting alternative A as the preferred alternative.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY.

    The documents reissued under section 2 and the preferred 
alternatives selected therein--
            (1) shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of the 
        National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.), the 
        Federal Land Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 
        seq.), and subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States 
        Code (commonly referred to as the ``Administrative Procedure 
        Act''); and
            (2) do not require any additional environmental analysis.
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