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As a result, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) stated that his Committee is planning to look at options to roll back any monument designations that were done without local support. In contrast, the House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) traveled this week to New Mexico to tour newly-designated monuments in the state and indicated that he will be looking for ways to protect the Antiquities Act. In addition, legislation has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would require Congressional approval of national monuments and restrictions on the use of national monuments, to establish requirements for the declaration of marine national monuments.
Source: Rural County Representatives of California