AFBF Calling for Senate To Address Planning 2.0 Rule

The House passed a resolution against a Bureau of Land Management rule pushed through in the final weeks of the Obama administration. AFBF congressional relations director Ryan Yates says the rule—known as Planning 2.0, would negatively impact federal land-use planning processes.

“Unfortunately, while the BLM suggested that they were looking to find a way to expand they ability of the public and the local governments and effected users to better weigh in and comment on management decisions the rule did the exact opposite."

Yates explains there were several problems with rule that prompted the House to act.

“There was broad consensus in the debate that the process for developing the rule was flawed fundamentally.  Provisions in the rule were flawed and outside of the scope of law and ultimately passed a bipartisan resolution of disapproval.”

The Senate must pass its own disapproval resolution before the regulation can be rescinded. Yates says the bipartisan vote in the House could lead to a timely vote in the Senate, but farmers and ranchers need to let their senators know how the rule will hurt them

“Members of the United State Senate need to hear from their constituents that this BLM rule is flawed and needs to be disapproved.  So, we’ll be reaching out to our friends in the senate and urging a yes vote on that resolution of disapproval.”

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