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Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025

Introduced Apr 10, 2025 by Sen. Ben Ray Luján

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Latest action · Apr 10, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 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.

Roll-call votes

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