Overview

• The Senate reconciliation draft would require disposing of 2.2 million to 3.3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands across 11 Western states.
• National parks, national monuments, wilderness areas and lands under existing mining or grazing leases are explicitly excluded from the proposed sales.
• Federal officials must consult with governors, local governments and tribes before selling parcels but are not obligated to secure their approval.
• Conservation groups and some Republican lawmakers argue the measure offers scant housing benefits, erodes public access and primarily serves to fund tax cuts.
• Colorado’s Democratic senators have vowed to oppose the land sale provision as the budget reconciliation package moves through the Senate.