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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-224
CHACO CULTURAL HERITAGE AREA PROTECTION ACT OF
2019
OCTOBER 4, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2181]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2181) to provide for the withdrawal and protection of cer-
tain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2181 is to provide for the withdrawal and
protection of certain Federal land in the state of New Mexico.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees more than 247
million acres of U.S. land and 700 million acres of subsurface min-
eral estate and is the primary federal agency responsible for man-
aging oil and gas resources on public land. Over the last decade,
oil and gas production in New Mexico has increased dramatically
as a result of hydraulic fracturing and the presence of abundant re-
sources. New Mexico is 35 percent public land, and oil and gas pro-
duction in New Mexico is disproportionately produced on these
public lands-in 2017, 57 percent of New Mexico's oil and 65 per-
cent of New Mexico's gas was produced from the federal mineral
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