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S 1412 119th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources

Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025

Introduced: April 10, 2025 Introduced by: Luján, Ben Ray Democratic · New Mexico See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Apr 10, 2025
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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.

What's happening now April 10, 2025

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/
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"S. 1412: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/.
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S. 1412, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1412/.
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