I am also grateful to you for including a year-long moratorium on new oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historic Park in Fiscal Year 2020, which is my ancestral homeland, and for funding a cultural resources investigation.
Haaland thanks for a moratorium on oil leasing near her ancestral land.
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