A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

If passed, the Senate Reconciliation Bill would allow the federal government to sell Forest Service and BLM land in Siskiyou and Trinity counties, conservationists said..

A proposal to sell off up to 3 million acres of public lands across the West is in limbo after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it out of the reconciliation bill.