New Oversight Subcommittee to Scrutinize Public Land Access, EPA Regulations

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A newly created subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will scrutinize restrictions on access to public lands and Environmental Protection Agency regulations on power plants and revisions to the national ozone standard, the panel's chairman told Bloomberg BNA. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), tapped to chair the Interior Subcommittee in December, said "a lot" of the panel's focus would be reducing obstacles to public land access and aggressive oversight of efforts to add more land to federal management. "A lot of our focus will be on concerns on the expansion of powers of federal land management," Lummis said in a Feb. 11 interview. "It doesn't make much sense to me to add to the federal estate when we don't have the ability to manage what we already own." The Wyoming Republican also pledged to scrutinize limits to energy exploration on public lands.