ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

House: LARA DP 5-4-0-0

HCM2007: Grand Canyon Footprints monument; repeal

Sponsor: Representative Biasiucci, LD 30

House Engrossed

Overview

Urges the President of the United States to rescind or revoke the designation of the Grand Canyon National Monument, and to oppose the designation of any federal or mineral withdrawal that seeks to limit activities in the Arizona Strip.

History

Presidential Proclamation 10606 on August 8, 2023 established the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the President of the United States to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures and other objects of historic or scientific interest on lands owned or controlled by the United States as national monuments.

Provisions

1. Urges the President of the U.S. to:

a) rescind or revoke the designation of the Grand Canyon National Monument;

b) oppose the designation of any future permanent federal or mineral withdrawal that seeks to limit critical mineral, metal and aggregate mining, cattle grazing or multiple-use activities in the Arizona Strip;

c) not designate any national monument, park, wildlife refuge, conservation area, area of critical environmental concern, wild and scenic river, wilderness or wilderness characteristic area of any other federal special use designation, land, mineral reservation or withdrawal in Arizona without the express authorization of:

i. the U.S. Congress;

ii. the Arizona State Legislature while in session; and

iii. the members of the county board of supervisors in each county that would be impacted by the designation, reservation or withdrawal.

2. Requests the Arizona Secretary of State to transmit the Memorial to the President of the U.S., the President of the U.S. Senate, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and each member of the U.S. Congress from Arizona.

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