Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke assured the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday that he plans to scale back his plan to expand offshore leasing in nearly all federal waters, after massive local and state opposition.

“States matter, local voices matter, you matter, and governors matter,” Zinke said, during testimony before the committee on the Department of Interior’s fiscal 2019 budget. “I think I know exactly where everyone sits on both coasts. We are shaping our plan. This is not a rule. This is a plan.”