Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
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In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 10, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Apr 10, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Plain-English summary
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.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1412: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/
"S. 1412: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/.
S. 1412, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/.
[S. 1412: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/)