Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan".

This joint resolution disapproves, under the Congressional Review Act, a Bureau of Land Management rule relating to the "Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan," issued November 12, 2024. The Government Accountability Office had determined in a June 25, 2025 opinion that the record of decision and resource management plan qualified as a "rule" subject to congressional review. Congress used that authority to disapprove it, and the resolution declares that the rule "shall have no force or effect." The Central Yukon plan had updated the prior resource management plan for the area, including designating 21 areas of critical environmental concern or research natural areas covering about 3,611,000 acres. This resolution does not itself create a replacement plan; it simply voids the BLM's 2024 plan, which returns management of the area to its prior governing plan.

The Bureau of Land Management and Department of the Interior, which must now manage the Central Yukon planning area under the prior resource management plan rather than the nullified 2024 plan. Alaska residents, land users, energy and resource developers, and conservation groups with interests in the roughly 3.6 million acres covered by the voided plan are also affected.

The nullification removes new conservation protections and land-use restrictions the 2024 plan had established, including 21 areas of critical environmental concern, potentially reopening those lands to activities the plan had limited. Because the Congressional Review Act also bars the agency from issuing a substantially similar rule without new statutory authority, BLM's ability to reinstate similar protections is constrained.

Once enacted, the resolution immediately voids the BLM's Central Yukon resource management plan, with no agency rulemaking process required to effectuate the disapproval. The Congressional Review Act's disapproval mechanism relied on a GAO determination that the plan qualified as a "rule." Going forward, BLM manages the Central Yukon planning area under the prior resource management plan, and under the Congressional Review Act, the agency is barred from reissuing a substantially similar plan without new congressional authorization.