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SJRES 89 · 119th Congress · Senate

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".

In progress
IntroducedOct 8, 2025
Policy areaPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Cosponsors1
What this bill is intended to do

This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on November 20, 2024, which amended the 2015 resource management plan (RMP) for the Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming to make no federal coal available for future leasing. Thus, the joint resolution requires the BLM to follow the 2015 RMP as it was before it was amended in 2024 and make coal available for leasing. By way of background, the BLM developed the amendment to the plan in response to Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management. In that case, the court held that the BLM must evaluate the climate impacts of federal coal leasing in the Buffalo Field Office and include alternatives to limit or stop coal leasing in the evaluation in order to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. After conducting the evaluation, the BLM amended the RMP and made BLM-managed coal resources in the Buffalo Field Office planning area unavailable for future leasing.

Latest action

Nov 20, 2025Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8395)

How Congress voted · Senate roll call 621 · Nov 19, 2025
51 Yea47 Nay2 Not voting

Motion to Proceed Agreed to (51-47)

How each party voted
Republicans51–0
Democrats0–45
Independents0–2

Revealed positions from the official roll call.

D60

This joint resolution seeks to disapprove a rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management regarding the Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment. The resolution aims to nullify the rule, asserting it as a rule under the Congressional Review Act.

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