A joint resolution 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 "Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".

The resolution would formally disapprove, under the Congressional Review Act, a Bureau of Land Management rule issued November 20, 2024, that amended the Resource Management Plan for the Miles City Field Office in Montana. That plan amendment made no acres available for coal leasing and placed roughly 1,745,040 acres off-limits to further consideration for coal leasing. If passed and signed, the resolution states the rule "shall have no force or effect," nullifying the plan amendment.

The resolution follows a Government Accountability Office opinion, dated June 25, 2025, concluding that the Miles City record of decision and plan amendment qualifies as a "rule" subject to congressional review. The resolution itself does not create a replacement land-management plan; it only voids the existing BLM decision, leaving the agency to determine how the affected acres are managed going forward.

The Bureau of Land Management's Miles City Field Office in Montana, coal companies and mining interests seeking access to federal coal reserves in the area, and Montana communities and conservation groups concerned with land use and coal leasing on roughly 1.7 million acres of federal land.

Voiding the BLM's plan amendment would remove the current restriction on coal leasing across a large swath of federal land, potentially reopening those acres to industry interest and future leasing decisions. It would also block the BLM from issuing a substantially similar rule without new congressional authorization, a key feature of Congressional Review Act disapprovals.

If enacted, the resolution would immediately strip legal force from the BLM's Miles City plan amendment, relying on the Congressional Review Act's mechanism rather than agency rulemaking. Under that Act, the BLM would also be barred from reissuing a substantially similar coal-leasing restriction without new statutory authority. The BLM would then need to determine how to manage the affected acres, potentially through a new resource management plan process, though this resolution does not itself direct or fund that process.