Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Apr 10, 2025, with cosponsors, all Democrats
IntroducedApr 10, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 55 words.
Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025 This bill creates a buffer zone around the Chaco Culture National Historic Park in New Mexico by prohibiting certain leases on federal land for the development of mineral resources or geothermal energy within the buffer zone. Nonproducing oil and gas leases in the buffer zone are terminated.
Context
- Committees
- House Natural Resources Committee
- Policy area
- Public Lands and Natural Resources: 136 of 3,779 bills became law, 113th–118th (3.6%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 95 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 1,321 words
- Latest action
- Apr 10, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 1412 Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025 D · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]