Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to “Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources”, provision 1, 1.
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The marine archaeology rule is undone
The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says
“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources" (89 Fed. Reg. 71160 (September 3, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”
A resolution of disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code, the Congressional Review Act. It names the rule by the title the agency gave it and by where the rule was published, and it states no reason. What the rule itself required is not described here, because that rule is not one of the documents this site has indexed.
What the document actually says
“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources" (89 Fed. Reg. 71160 (September 3, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress votes down a rule about old wrecks under the sea. The rule now has no force.
What this is about
The ocean energy office wrote a rule about old wrecks under the sea. Congress voted to undo it. The rule is dead. It binds no one now. Congress used a law that lets it undo a new rule within a set time.
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Ocean Energy Management rule disapproved: Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources, Public Law 119-3, sec. 1, 139 Stat. 8 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ3/html/PLAW-119publ3.htm
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“The marine archaeology rule is undone,” Ocean Energy Management rule disapproved: Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources, provision 1, 1. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-3/proposal/sec01-disapproval/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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