S 1412
Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2025
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.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Sen. Ben Ray Luján [D-NM]
- Cosponsors
- 1
- Policy area
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Introduced
- 2025-04-10
- Latest action
- 2025-04-10: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-04-10: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2025-04-10: Introduced in Senate