The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee has opened a probe into a last-minute Biden administration deal that is forcing farmers off national park lands they’d been leasing from the government in California.

The Washington Free Beacon reported the Nature Conservancy helped broker the deal to push farmers off the property in return for undisclosed payouts and nondisclosure agreements.

The Beacon reported House members on the committee sent a letter to the Conservancy looking for more information about the deal with the farmers. The letter read, “The committee is concerned not only with the lack of transparency surrounding the settlement but also with the environmental and legal consequences the settlement may impose.”

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