{"format":1,"id":"119-hjres-130","congress":119,"number":"H.J.Res. 130","kind":"joint_resolution","group":"bills","title":"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.","title_source":"Display Title","official_title":"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\".","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"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\"."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"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."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"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\"."}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 119-51","introduced":"2025-10-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-11-18","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h294","question":"On Passage","title":"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”","result":"Passed","yea":214,"nay":212,"present":0,"not_voting":7,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll294.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-11-20","vote":{"id":"119-2025-s623","question":"On the Joint Resolution","title":"H.J.Res. 130","result":"Joint Resolution Passed","yea":51,"nay":43,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"source":"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00623.xml"}}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2025-12-11"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 119-51.","date":"2025-12-11"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-11-18","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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."}],"words":164},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Disapproves, under the Congressional Review Act, the Bureau of Land Management's Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, so that the rule has no force or effect.","cites":[{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr#H87686CB3D63149E9A3FA727D409BA502"}]},"core_areas":["Congressional disapproval of the Bureau of Land Management's Buffalo Field Office resource management plan amendment"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"States that Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to the \"Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment\".","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr#H87686CB3D63149E9A3FA727D409BA502"}},{"text":"Identifies the rule as the record of decision and approved resource management plan amendment issued November 20, 2024.","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr#H87686CB3D63149E9A3FA727D409BA502"}},{"text":"Refers to a Government Accountability Office letter of opinion dated September 18, 2025, which concluded that the record of decision and approved resource management plan is a rule under the Congressional Review Act.","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr#H87686CB3D63149E9A3FA727D409BA502"}},{"text":"Provides that the disapproved rule shall have no force or effect.","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr#H87686CB3D63149E9A3FA727D409BA502"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-12","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/130/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hjres-130.png","v":"8b1fd81bfcda","alt":"Votes on Record. H.J.Res. 130, 119th Congress: 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. House: 214 Yea, 212 Nay. Senate: 51 Yea, 43 Nay. Outcome: Became law, 11 Dec 2025."}}