Sponsor
Harriet Hageman
Representative · R-WY
Representative · R-WY
The bill preserves the current status quo for local users and industry by blocking the December 2024 RMP, but it does so at the cost of delaying conservation protections, potential federal revenue, and clearer federal direction for state and local planning.
Residents and local land users in the Rock Springs area keep existing land-use rules and access because the December 2024 RMP cannot be implemented.
Energy and mining companies can avoid complying with any new conservation, leasing, or development restrictions that would have come from the December 2024 RMP, preserving current operating flexibility.
Local communities and the public lose potential conservation, recreation, and resource protections that were proposed in the December 2024 RMP.
Taxpayers and local economies may see federal leasing revenue delayed or foregone because decisions that could clarify or open new leases are suspended.
State and local governments face uncertainty in planning and permitting because federal land-management direction for the Rock Springs Field Office is frozen.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars the Interior Department from implementing, administering, or enforcing the Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs Field Office RMP dated December 2024.
Official title: To prohibit the implementation of the Rock Springs Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan.
Introduced January 7, 2025 by Harriet Hageman · Last progress January 7, 2025
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from implementing, administering, or enforcing the Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan dated December 2024. The bill directs the executive branch to take no action to carry out that specific RMP. The measure does not create a replacement plan or direct an alternative management approach; it simply forbids federal action to implement that named RMP document.