The Senate is taking the final congressional step this week to kill the Obama administration’s overhaul of the way the Bureau of Land Management makes land-use decisions.

 

The House voted 234-186 in February to approve a resolution that would eliminate the BLM Planning 2.0 rule, which ranchers and other critics say would dilute the influence of local and regional officials on BLM decisions.

 

The Senate is scheduled Monday evening to vote on advancing the measure. If the Senate OKs the measure, the rule would be eliminated once President Trump signs the resolution.

 

The rule, issued in December, is one of a series of regulations issued in the final months of the Obama administration that the Republican Congress is trying to kill through use of the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that had been used successfully only once prior to this year. A CRA resolution must be approved within a limited time after the Congress is formally notified that the regulation is taking effect.

 

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