Public Law 119-51
Cancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
What this law changes
From a secondary sourceCancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
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Transparency Score
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Transparency Score
Share of the text within the stated purpose:Not checked yetThe text of this law provides and authorizes no dollar amount. The score is the share of its text within the stated intent. That share is "Not checked yet": no reading of this law is approved by a person yet.
How this is counted
- Transparency Score: dollars in sections a person approved as within the stated intent, divided by total dollars in the law. Shown as a percentage. Higher means more of the money goes to what the law says it is for.
- Beside it, the same two numbers the other way round: total dollars divided by dollars within the stated intent. 1.00 means every dollar is within the stated intent. When no dollar is within the stated intent this ratio cannot be computed, and the answer says so.
- Total dollars: appropriated dollars plus authorized dollars, read from the law's text by the rules below. Dollars in a section whose reading is unclear or was not read count in the total and are shown apart as unclear.
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- The dollar totals read "Not checked yet" when more than 10 percent of the dollars read could not be sorted by the rules.
- Every dollar amount in our saved text of the law is read: "$1,234,567", "$5 billion", "$2.5 million". Margin notes, page marks and the table of contents are left out. Each amount is kept with the words printed around it.
- Appropriated: the sentence says "there is appropriated", "is hereby appropriated" or "out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated"; or the amount is the one an appropriations paragraph ("For ..., $X") provides under an account heading of an appropriations act.
- Authorized: the sentence says "authorized to be appropriated". An authorization lets a later law provide the money. It provides none itself.
- A list under such a sentence ("there is appropriated the following: (1) ...; (2) ..."): an amount that begins an item is counted the same way as the sentence says, unless the sentence gives a total first. Then the items are parts of that total.
- "$X for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030" is counted as X times the number of years named (here 5). The yearly figure, the years and the product are all kept. "For each fiscal year" with no years named is counted once, and the answer says so.
- Open-ended: "such sums as may be necessary" names no amount. It is counted as an item and adds no dollars.
- Rescinded: "is hereby rescinded", "permanently cancelled", or an item of a list headed "the following funds are hereby rescinded". Shown apart. Not subtracted from the total.
- Not spending, and left out of the total: an amount after "not to exceed", "not more than", "up to", "less than", "in excess of" and like words; a fine or penalty; a limit the law raises ("the limitation is increased by $X"); a figure the law strikes from another law; and a figure inside words it writes into another law ("striking $X and inserting $Y"), unless the same sentence says the figure is authorized or appropriated.
- Counted once: an amount after "of which", after "Provided, That", or after "of the amounts made available" is a part of a total already counted. Where a paragraph ends "in all, $X", that total is counted and the amounts before it are its parts.
- An amount the rules cannot sort is "not classified". It is listed with its words and left out of the total. Nothing is guessed.
- Total dollars: appropriated dollars plus authorized dollars. The two are also shown apart.
What the law says it is for
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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''.”
The words under "Joint Resolution", Public Law 119-51, official text · Saved October 5, 2026 · Fingerprint bb4bccc61ad06f8c
Congress's summary · Congressional Research Service
“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.”
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Summary of the version: Passed House, Congressional Research Service summary: Passed House · Saved October 6, 2026 · Fingerprint 62014fb22bd97607
The law's text gives it no short title.
The law has no findings or purpose section.
The bill's record names no committee report.
Dollars in this law
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Source: Public Law 119-51, official text · Saved October 5, 2026 · Fingerprint bb4bccc61ad06f8c
Other measures
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- Member-requested dollars as a share of appropriated dollars
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No list of member-requested spending is printed in the 16 official records saved for this law, and no committee report says there is none.
- Open-ended amounts (“such sums as may be necessary”)
- 0 passagesConfirmed from the official record
- Other bills whose text this law contains
- 1 billConfirmed from the official record
- How the House passed it
- Recorded vote: 214 Yes, 212 No, 0 Present, 7 Did not vote, November 18, 2025Confirmed from the official record
- How the Senate passed it
- Recorded vote: 51 Yes, 43 No, 0 Present, 6 Did not vote, November 20, 2025Confirmed from the official record
- Committee report saved
- None in the official recordConfirmed from the official record
The bill's official record names no committee report.
- Hearing saved
- None in the official recordConfirmed from the official record
The bill's official record names no hearing.
How these are counted
- Added along the way, sections: sections of the final law marked "added later", divided by the sections compared.
- Added along the way, words: words in those sections, divided by the words in the sections compared.
- Each text is read as a list of words. A run is 5 words in a row. For each section of the final law we count the share of its runs that appear anywhere in the first published text of the bill. 90 percent or more: in the first text. From 20 to 90 percent: changed. Under 20 percent: added later. A section with fewer than 20 words is not compared.
- Sections outside the stated intent: sections a person approved as outside the stated intent, divided by the sections read. The same count is given in words.
- Member-requested spending: the number of items in the lists Congress printed for the law, and the sum of their dollar amounts.
- A part that is not checked yet is shown as "Not checked yet". It is never counted as zero. No single blended number is given.
Added along the way
Not checked yetSections added later: Not checked yet. The first text of this bill was replaced: 100 percent of it is not in the final law. Under 20 percent of the first text is in the final law, so nearly every section reads as added later.
Amendments adopted
The record lists no adopted amendment to this bill.
Other bills whose text this law contains
The Congressional Research Service, a part of the Library of Congress, marks 1 other bill with the words “Public law contains the text”. That means this law includes text from that bill. This page does not compare its text with the law.
- S.J.Res. 89 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 Man
Member-requested spending
No list foundNo list of member-requested spending is printed in the 16 official records saved for this law, and no committee report says there is none.
Sections outside the stated intent
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On the record
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Press releases by members of Congress
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10 press releases
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Congresswoman Hageman Introduces Bill to Cut Upfront Cost of Coal Production In Half
“Repealed the Biden era new leasing ban in the Powder River Basin, our nation’s largest source of coal, through Rep. Hageman's H.J. Res. 130, which terminated the no new leasing Buffalo Resource Management Plan.”
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BOEBERT BULLETIN: DECEMBER 1, 2025
“H.J. Res. 130 - Buffalo Field Office CRA - YES (Passed)”
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Scalise’s End-of-Year Recap: One Year of Republicans Delivering on our Promises
“H.J. Res. 130 (Hageman) – Buffalo Field Office RMP CRA: Reverses the rule submitted by Biden’s Bureau of Land Management relating to “Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment” that threatens Americans’ access to affordable and reliable energy by locking up 800,000 acres of land and 4.7 million acres of mineral estate, preventing future coal”
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“With President Trump signing H.J. Res. 130 into law, we overturned the Biden administration’s Buffalo RMPA that ended future coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, threatening thousands of jobs, undermining local communities, and jeopardizing affordable, reliable energy for millions of Americans. This law allows our state to responsibly develop its resources and upholds our leadership in American energy production.”
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“With President Trump signing H.J. Res. 130 into law, we overturned the Biden administration’s Buffalo RMPA that ended future coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, threatening thousands of jobs, undermining local communities, and jeopardizing affordable, reliable energy for millions of Americans. This law allows our state to responsibly develop its resources and upholds our leadership in American energy production.”
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Recapping our Legislative Week
“H.J. Res. 130- Reverses the freeze on future coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, protecting jobs and more than 260 million dollars in projected federal revenue.”
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Senate Passes Lummis Legislation Undoing Biden’s Buffalo RMPA
“Thanks to Senators Lummis and Barrasso’s strong leadership in the Senate, H.J. Res. 130 is headed to the President’s desk, and we are one step closer to repealing the Biden administration’s disastrous Buffalo RMPA,” said Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. “Wyoming coal powers this country, and once this misguided, ideologically driven policy is overturned, we can better meet our nation’s growing energy”
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Fedorchak votes to repeal Biden-era regulations blocking oil, gas, and coal development
“H.J. Res. 130 overturns restrictions that prohibited future coal leasing applications through 2038 in the Powder River Basin by locking up 800,000 acres of land and 4.7 million acres of mineral estate in Wyoming. The legislation will help keep energy prices affordable and reliable by allowing access to 48.12 billion short tons of coal, enough supply to meet U.S. coal”
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Owens Joins House Debate to Advance America First Bills
“WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04) joined the House floor debate to advance H.J. Res. 130, H.J. Res. 131, S.J. Res. 80, H. Con. Res. 58, H.R. 1949, H.R. 3109, H.R. 5107, and H.R. 5214, eight bills that deliver on House Republican’s commitment to restore regular order, secure the nation, and protect hardworking American families.”
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House Passes Congresswoman Hageman’s Bill to Overturn Biden-Era Buffalo RMPA
“Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.J. Res. 130, which repeals the Biden-era Buffalo Field Office Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA).”
Read from 539 of 539 members' sites, releases since January 3, 2025, through October 7, 2026.
Press releases by organizations
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Read from 510 of 510 organizations' sites, releases since January 3, 2025, through October 7, 2026.
What it touches
Kind of law: Cancels a federal rule. Budget effect: No direct effect on agency budgets.
Government
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- Land, housing and natural resources
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- Mining, drilling and land use
Daily life
- Environment and outdoors
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Agencies it funds or directs
Dollar amounts:Not checked yetHow it passed
The House passed it 214 to 212 on November 18, 2025, with 7 members who did not vote.
The Senate passed it 51 to 43 on November 20, 2025, with 6 senators who did not vote.
The question on the official record: House, “On Passage”. Senate, “On the Joint Resolution (H.J.Res. 130)”.
| Chamber and party | Yes | No | Present | Did not vote |
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| House Republicans | 214 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| House Democrats | 0 | 211 | 0 | 3 |
| Senate Republicans | 51 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Senate Democrats | 0 | 41 | 0 | 4 |
| Senate independents | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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