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 Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision.

This law disapproves, under the Congressional Review Act, a Bureau of Land Management record of decision issued December 9, 2024, that governed oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain program area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That 2024 decision had adopted an alternative making roughly 1.2 million of the program area's approximately 1.6 million acres unavailable for leasing or exploration, while still requiring a statutory minimum of 400,000 acres to be offered in a lease sale in the highest hydrocarbon-potential areas. By disapproving the rule, the resolution declares it has no force or effect, which reverses the narrower 2024 approach and reverts leasing decisions to the prior framework. The Government Accountability Office had concluded the record of decision qualified as a "rule" subject to Congressional Review Act disapproval, a determination Congress relied on to act.

The Bureau of Land Management and Department of the Interior, which administer Coastal Plain leasing; oil and gas companies interested in bidding on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leases; and Alaska Native communities, environmental groups, and other stakeholders with interests in how much of the Coastal Plain is opened to development.

Nullifying the 2024 record of decision removes the restrictions it had placed on roughly 1.2 million acres, potentially expanding the land available for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It also bars the Bureau of Land Management from issuing a substantially similar decision going forward without new statutory authority, shaping how much of the refuge can be leased for years to come.

Once enacted, the resolution takes immediate legal effect: the December 2024 record of decision is treated as void, and the Bureau of Land Management can no longer rely on it to govern Coastal Plain leasing. Under Congressional Review Act rules, the agency is barred from reissuing a rule that is substantially the same unless a new law specifically authorizes it. Future leasing decisions for the program area would need to proceed under whatever decision or framework applies in the rule's absence, such as the earlier 2020 record of decision.