This bill, the Western Economic Security Today Act of 2025 (WEST Act of 2025), would repeal a Bureau of Land Management final rule titled "Conservation and Landscape Health" (88 Fed. Reg. 19583, April 3, 2023). The text of the bill says that the rule "shall have no force or effect." The bill was introduced in the Senate on February 11, 2025, by Senator John Barrasso with several cosponsors and was referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
The bill would remove the legal effect of the named BLM rule if it becomes law. No publicly available information about specific effects on land users, agencies, or projects is in the bill text or metadata.
No publicly available information about costs or budgetary effects is provided in the bill text or metadata.
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