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Issues
Representative Nick Begich (R-AK) sponsored H.J.Res. 106, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval, which would reverse the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Central Yukon Resource Management Plan (RMP). The CRA is an extreme and blunt tool that is being used by anti-environmental members of Congress who want to permanently strip away protections for our environment, communities, wildlife, and natural heritage. Using the CRA on an agency RMP is unprecedented and inconsistent with CRA statute and the stable practices of developing and revising management plans across both Republican and Democratic administrations. This RMP guides land management and protections for 13.3 million acres of interior and Arctic Alaska, including habitat for caribou, Dall sheep, polar bears, and many other species, along with subsistence areas critical to local and Native communities. The RMP for some of the most culturally significant landscapes in the U.S., this plan was developed over a decade with careful consultation with Native nations and other stakeholders. Rather than going through the established agency consultation and update process, this CRA circumvents public input and illegitimately invalidates this RMP. It also potentially keeps BLM from issuing any other RMP like it in the future, restricting public lands protections across these unique and sacred landscapes and risking further mining and drilling. On September 3, the House approved H.J.Res. 106 by a vote of 215-210 (House roll call vote 225). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The Senate approved H.J.Res. 106 on October 10, and the president signed it on December 11.
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