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HR 2861In committeePublic Landshouse
Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
Introduced Apr 10, 2025 by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez
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Latest action · Apr 10, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
What it does
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
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