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Nullifies the Ironwood Forest National Monument proclamation and bars future monuments/extensions in the mapped area unless Congress authorizes them.
The bill trades restored local control and reduced short-term federal management costs for the mapped area against the loss of federal conservation protections, potential local tourism revenue, and legal uncertainty that will require slower congressional action to fix.
Local governments and nearby residents (rural communities) regain and retain greater control over land use because the national monument designation for the mapped area is removed and new monuments cannot be created there without an act of Congress.
Owners and operators of existing private or permitted uses (ranching, mining, recreation, etc.) face a reduced risk of new federal land-use restrictions within the mapped area, protecting ongoing economic activities.
Taxpayers may avoid immediate additional federal management and administration costs that would have been required to operate the national monument absent congressional approval.
Residents, visitors, and the area's natural and cultural resources lose the public-access safeguards and long-term conservation protections that come with national monument status when the designation is removed.
Visitors and local recreation/tourism businesses could lose monument-related tourism and the economic benefits that flow from federal protection and promotion of the site.
People and groups seeking comparable protections will need Congress to act to restore or create new protections, which is likely to be slower and more politically difficult than a presidential designation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Official title: To nullify Presidential Proclamation 7320 and restrict the designation of national monuments in southern Arizona.
Introduced September 16, 2025 by Paul Gosar · Last progress September 16, 2025
Nullifies the 2000 Presidential Proclamation that created the Ironwood Forest National Monument and prevents any future establishment or extension of a national monument within the geographic area shown on the June 12, 2000 map unless Congress expressly authorizes it. It also gives the Act an official short title. The practical effect is to remove the monument's federal designation and bar the President from unilaterally recreating or expanding a monument inside that mapped area without a new act of Congress.