1412 -- Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025 | Poliscope

Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025

1412

119th Congress

Public Lands and Natural Resources

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

April 10, 2025

Latest Action

April 10, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Ben Ray LujánDemocratic(NM)

Momentum (last 30 days)

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0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

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vs 5,674 other S bills in the 119th — cohort avg 32d

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.