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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR H.C.R. 2024
30x30 land program; opposing
Purpose
Opposes the 30 x 30 Program and supports the 30 x 30 Termination Act.
Background
Presidential Executive Order 14008 requires the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, the U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the Chair of the U.S. Council on
Environmental Quality to, as appropriate, solicit input from outlined stakeholders to identify
strategies to encourage broad participation in conserving 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by
2030. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture must submit annual
reports to the National Climate Task Force (86 Fed. Reg. 7,627 (February 1, 2021)).
The initial report recommends that federal agencies: 1) create more parks and safe outdoor
opportunities in nature-deprived communities; 2) support tribally led conservation and restoration
priorities; 3) expand collaborative conservation of fish and wildlife habitats and corridors;
4) increase access for outdoor recreation; 5) incentivize and reward the voluntary conservation
efforts of fishers, ranchers, farmers and forest owners; and 6) create jobs by investing in restoration
and resilience (U.S. DOI).
The 30 x 30 Termination Act nullifies the 30 x 30 Program and prohibits federal funds
from being used to: 1) implement, administer, enforce or carry out any substantially similar
program; 2) acquire non-federal land within a state or county in which a federal agency manages
15 percent or more of the land, unless the federal agency proposing the acquisition disposes of an
equal amount of federal land within the impacted state or county to ensure no net-loss of
non-federal land and taxable acreage within the same fiscal year as the proposed acquisition and
the following fiscal years; and 3) implement, administer, enforce or carry out any action on federal
land that results in a net-loss of multiple use or any principle or major use within a state, unless
such action has been authorized by federal statute. Additionally, the U.S. President must not
withdraw any federal land from: 1) forms of entry, appropriation or disposal under public land
laws; 2) location, entry and patent under the mining laws; or 3) disposition under laws pertaining
to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials unless the withdrawal has been authorized
by federal statute (H.R. 3014, 117th Congress, 2021).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
FACT SHEET
H.C.R. 2024
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Provisions
1. Opposes:
a) the 30 x 30 program or any similar program that will set aside and prevent the productive
use of millions of acres of Arizona land;
b) the designation of public lands and national forests in Arizona as wilderness study areas,
wildlife preserves, open space or other conservation land; and
c) the acquisition of private land from unwilling private landowners.
2. Supports:
a) the enactment of the 30 x 30 Termination Act or similar legislation by U.S. Congress;
b) the management of public lands and the national forests under principles of multiple use
and sustained yield that recognize the need for domestic sources of minerals, energy, timber
and food in the United States;
c) the federal government's careful coordination with Arizona to ensure consistency with state
and local land use plans and land management policies; and
d) the protection of private property and honoring state rights as required by law.
House Action
LARA 1/24/22 DP 6-5-0-0
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Read 2/3/22 31-27-2
Prepared by Senate Research
March 21, 2022
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