H.R. 6869 is like a promise to keep some forestland in California safe from digging for treasure so the plants and animals that live there can stay healthy and happy. This means no one can come in with shovels or machines to look for shiny rocks!

The bill wants to make it easier for people to use heat from the Earth by not needing some special permissions from the government if less than half of the land underground belongs to the U.S., and if they have permission from the state. It also says that certain laws to protect nature and history won't always need to be checked, except on Native American lands.

The HEATS Act is a bill that says people don't need special government permission to drill for hot water and steam energy on land that isn't mostly owned by the U.S. government, and it doesn't need to follow some environment rules, but it still must listen to state and Native American land rules.