On Passage — H J RES 130 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to “Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment”

- This House joint resolution from the 119th Congress uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove a Bureau of Land Management rule on the Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment. - Official subject tags include coal, mining, Wyoming, Interior Department procedures, and public lands. The official summary says the BLM rule of November 20, 2024, amended the 2015 Buffalo Field Office plan in Wyoming to make no federal coal available for future leasing. - Nullifying that rule would require BLM to follow the 2015 plan as it stood before the 2024 amendment and make coal available for leasing. - The official summary says BLM prepared the amendment after a court case, Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management. - In that case, as described here, the court said BLM had to evaluate climate effects of federal coal leasing in that office and include alternatives that limit or stop leasing. - After that review, BLM made coal resources in the planning area unavailable for future leasing.