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This law blocks a National Park Service rule about motor vehicles in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. By approving this resolution, Congress said the rule should not take effect and will have no legal force. In simple terms, the government is отменing, or canceling, the park service’s motor vehicle rule for that area.
- It applies to a rule published by the National Park Service about motor vehicle use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
- Congress used its power to reject that rule under the Congressional Review Act.
- The disapproved rule is now treated as if it has no force or effect.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution nullifies the final rule issued by the National Park Service titled Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Motor Vehicles and published on January 13, 2025. The rule modified regulations concerning the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which is located in northern Arizona and southeastern Utah. For example, the rule limited the use of off-road vehicles, such as off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles, in certain areas.
This joint resolution allows off-road vehicles to be used in certain areas of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which is in northern Arizona and southeastern Utah and contains Lake Powell.
Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies the rule issued by the National Park Service (NPS) titled Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Motor Vehicles and published on January 13, 2025. Under the rule, the NPS limited the use of off-road vehicles, such as off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles, in certain areas. For instance, the rule prohibited the use of off-road vehicles on an 8-mile segment of the Poison Spring Loop located on Route 633 proceeding north to Route 730 in the Orange Cliffs Special Management Unit. The rule also eliminated the authority of the NPS to open the upper portion of the Flint Trail in that unit to off-road vehicles. Additionally, the rule limited off-road vehicle use from certain roads to the shoreline of the lake.
Current Full Text
[119th Congress Public Law 13]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 139 STAT. 63]]
Public Law 119-13
119th Congress
Joint Resolution
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Park Service
relating to ``Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Motor
Vehicles''. <<NOTE: May 23, 2025 - [H.J. Res. 60]>>
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the
rule submitted by the National Park Service of the Department of the
Interior relating to ``Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Motor
Vehicles'' (90 Fed. Reg. 2621), and such rule shall have no force or
effect.
Approved May 23, 2025.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 60:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
Apr. 29, considered and passed House.
May 6, 8, considered and passed Senate.
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