; (bb) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); and (cc) subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Administrative Procedure Act ). (III) The revised rule eliminates strict forest planning standards established in 1982. (IV) The revised rule opens millions of acres of public land to damaging and invasive logging, mining, and drilling operations. (V) The revised rule would reverse more than 20 years of protections for wildlife and national forests by— (aa) removing the overall goal of ensuring ecological sustainability in managing the National Forest System; (bb) weakening the effect of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 ( Public Law 94–588 ; 90 Stat. 2949) and the amendments made by that Act; and (cc) effectively ending the review of forest management plans under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). (iii) Inventoried Roadless Area rules (I) On September 20, 2006, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the final rule entitled Special Areas; State Petitions for Inventoried Roadless Area Management (70 Fed. Reg. 25654 (May 13, 2005)) (referred to in this clause as the 2005 rule ), which gave each Governor of a State 18 months to petition the Federal Government— (aa) to restore the inventoried roadless area rules applicable to the State of the Governor before the effective date of the final rule entitled Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation (66 Fed. Reg. 3244 (January 12, 2001)) (referred to in this clause as the 2001 rule ); or (bb) to submit a new management and development plan for National Forest System inventoried roadless areas within the State. (II) Despite the enjoinment of the 2005 rule and the subsequent restoration of the 2001 rule, the Forest Service has continued to allow States to petition for a special rule under the authority of section 553(e) of title 5, United States Code, and has issued a final rule entitled Special Areas