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HR 1459 - Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act - National Key Vote
Peter Roskam voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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Stage Details
Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - March 27, 2014
Legislation -
Bill Passed
(House)
(222-201) -
March 26, 2014(Key vote)
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Title: Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act
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Vote to pass a bill that amends the process for the president to designate national monuments.
- Prohibits the president from declaring more than 1 tract of land per state as a national monument during his or her 4-year term without an express act of Congress (Sec. 2).
- Requires the Council on Environmental Quality to review a historic landmark, a historic or prehistoric structure, or another object of historic or scientific interest which the president has declared a national monument before the land officially becomes a national monument (Sec. 2).
- Prohibits the president from declaring a tract of land that includes private property as a national monument without the informed written consent of the owner of the private property (Sec. 2).
- Specifies that a tract of land less than 5,000 acres is exempt from other provisions of this bill and that the declaration of the land as a national monument will expire after 3 years unless the monument meets the following requirements (Sec. 2):
- The land is declared a monument by federal statute; or
- The land is reviewed by the Council on Environmental Quality.
- Requires a feasibility study on a declared national monument to be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Natural Resources, to be made available on the Department of Interior’s website no later than 1 year after the declaration, and to include the following information (Sec. 2):
- An estimate of costs associated with managing the monument in perpetuity;
- An estimate of costs that includes any loss of federal and state revenue; and
- An estimate of the number of jobs created and tourism dollars associated with managing the monument in perpetuity.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - April 10, 2013
Title: Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Mark E. Amodei (NV - R)
- Jason Chaffetz (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Paul A. Gosar (AZ - R)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Stevan Edward 'Steve' Pearce (NM - R) (Out Of Office)
- Chris Stewart (UT - R)
- Greg P. Walden (OR - R)
