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Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act - Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to subject national monument declarations by the President to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
Prohibits: (1) the President from making more than one such declaration in a state during any presidential four-year term of office without an express Act of Congress, or (2) such a declaration from including private property without the informed written consent of the affected private property owner.
Requires such a declaration: (1) to be considered a major federal action under NEPA, except if it affects 5,000 acres or less; (2) to be categorically excluded under NEPA and to expire three years after the date of the declaration (unless specifically designated as a monument by federal law) if it affects 5,000 acres or less; and (3) to be followed by a feasibility study that includes an estimate of the costs associated with managing the monument in perpetuity, including any loss of federal and state revenue, and the benefits associated with managing the monument in perpetuity.
Allows a declaration to become permanent if: (1) it is specifically designated as a monument by federal statute, or (2) the President follows the review process under NEPA.
Prohibits this Act from being construed to increase the amount of funds that are authorized to be appropriated.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1459 as passed House amended on Mar 26, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Mar 26, 2014Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 26, 2014
House Mar 26, 2014 · the primary vote
To ensure that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 applies to the declaration of national monuments, and for other purposes
Passed
222 Yea 201 Nay 8 not voting
Party-line vote 13 of 423 voting members broke with their own party: 3 Democrats, 10 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1459 and vote against it. 7 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1459 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
85 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.