S 1412 · in committee · significant
Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
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What this bill does
- Creates a buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Historic Park that bans new mineral and geothermal leases on federal land.
- Affects oil and gas companies and developers seeking to extract resources near the historic site in New Mexico.
- Terminates existing nonproducing oil and gas leases in the buffer zone immediately with no stated cost.
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Started by Cosponsor
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How would terminating existing nonproducing leases without compensation affect oil and gas companies' investment decisions in other federal lands?
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What economic trade-offs exist between protecting Chaco's archaeological and cultural resources and forgoing potential energy development and tax revenue in the buffer zone?
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How would the buffer zone's size and placement be determined, and what process would allow affected communities and industries to provide input?
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Sponsor · D-NM
Ben Ray Luján
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Introduced 2025-04-10
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Legislative timeline
2025-04-10 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2025-04-10 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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