It should be noted, though, when you talk about place-based decisions, we don't write lands bills in my office for my district.

Please get rid of NEPA and make the Forest Service tell them no.

There is a failure to distinguish between... what affects the Bureau of Land Management in this bill.

When you look at the rest of these proposals, in aggregate, it is about a four-to-one ratio, 4 acres of wilderness or other type of special status versus an acre of economic development.

I appreciate the reference to the Rocky Mountain West, but those of us from other areas of the West... it is the Intermountain West.

I know there is some concern about some of the amounts of wilderness and stuff that is being removed from oil and gas exploration.

H.R. 2925, introduced by Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei, and co-sponsored by Congresswoman Mary Peltola, would resolve severe permitting uncertainty.

That decision, which was applied to the Forest Service, basically overturned multiple decades, nearly a half a century of what was recognized in terms of what it did to pursue a mining claim.

Their combined advocacy for this measure not only highlights the importance critical minerals play in our clean energy future, but also a substantial number of jobs across the United States attributable to responsible mining companies.

It is interesting to hear how the Mining Law of 1872, which anybody that can add goes, that is a long time, maybe we ought to update that.

The legislation returns to the workable framework that existed prior to the fundamentally flawed Rosemont ruling.

The Air Force supports Representative Amodei's bill, which mirrors the Administration's Fiscal Year 2024 NDAA proposal.

H.R. 6070 is a technical amendment to the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999.

Can I inquire as to how much time is remaining on either side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Nevada has 20 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New York has 15 minutes remaining.

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Hey, please, please make Nye County a cooperating agency for NEPA purposes.

NASA denied the request made in the letter and again denied the county's subsequent requests made in public meetings.

The request made by the county to be a cooperating agency was a very reasonable request, and its denial was patently unreasonable.

There is no evidence that anything has changed that requires NASA to now withdraw the land.