On Passage — H J RES 131 — 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 “Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision”

In plain language

• This House joint resolution from the 119th Congress uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove a Bureau of Land Management record of decision on the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
• Official subject tags include administrative procedure, congressional oversight, the Interior Department, mining, oil and gas, and energy.
• The official summary says the measure would open public land for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by nullifying the BLM record of decision issued on December 9, 2024, for leasing, development, production, and transport of oil and gas from the Coastal Plain program area.
• That 2024 decision replaced a 2020 decision that, according to the official summary, made all of about 1.6 million acres in the program area available for leasing.
• The 2024 decision made about 1.2 million acres unavailable for leasing or exploration to protect resources and certain uses, while still requiring a statutory minimum of 400,000 acres in a specified lease sale, in areas with the highest potential for finding hydrocarbons and subject to stated stipulations.