What the document says“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision" (issued December 9, 2024, as a record of decision, and a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability Office dated August 25, 2025, printed in the Congressional Record on September 2, 2025, on pages S5557-S5560, concluding that such record of decision is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), 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 Land Management relating to "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision" (issued December 9, 2024, as a record of decision, and a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability Office dated August 25, 2025, printed in the Congressional Record on September 2, 2025, on pages S5557-S5560, concluding that such record of decision is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”
Congress votes down a rule about oil and gas on the Coastal Plain. The rule now has no force.
The BLM wrote a rule about oil and gas on the Coastal Plain. 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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