The House Natural Resources Committee advanced two measures Wednesday designed to rebuke and reverse
Biden administration
actions blocking new mineral development in
Minnesota
‘s Superior National Forest.

Both bills, introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber (R‑MN), come in response to the Interior Department’s
rescission
of two mineral leases for the Twin Metals mining project and
subsequent land withdrawal
covering approximately 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest. The withdrawal blocks new mineral leasing in the area for 20 years.

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One of the resolutions would express disapproval of the land withdrawal under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. If the Senate were to pass the same resolution, the land withdrawal would be nullified without needing President Joe Biden’s signature.

The other measure would rescind the withdrawal via a different legislative means while also reinstating the two mineral leases withdrawn by the Biden administration, without which Twin Metals’s developers cannot move forward.

Both passed without support from the committee’s …