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This bill, known as the "Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act," proposes to modify the Antiquities Act by removing the president's existing authority to establish or extend national monuments and reserving that power exclusively to Congress. Currently, the Antiquities Act allows the president to unilaterally create national monuments to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific sites, but this legislation would require congressional approval for any new national monument designations or expansions. The bill aims to limit executive branch discretion in land conservation by mandating that only Congress can approve the creation or expansion of national monuments, effectively changing a longstanding presidential power that has been used by presidents since Theodore Roosevelt first invoked the Antiquities Act in 1906.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/521/all-info