Voids the Bureau of Land Management's conservation and landscape health rule

§1What it does

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This bill would cancel a Bureau of Land Management rule on conservation and landscape health, which the agency first proposed in April 2023.^2,3 As introduced and as approved by the House Natural Resources Committee, it would have required the bureau to withdraw the proposed rule and barred it from finalizing, carrying out or enforcing that rule or any substantially similar one.² Before the House vote, its text was replaced with a shorter version, and the bill the House passed in April 2024 states that the final rule based on that proposal has no force or effect.^2,4

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§3How Congress voted

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