WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Bureau of Land Management has issued a rule called: Rescission of Regulations Regarding Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Feb. 19 by Lanny E. Erdos, Director, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement Exercising Authority of the Assistant Secretary-Land Minerals Management.
Summary: Due to the receipt of a substantive comment on the direct final rule (DFR) rescinding portions of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address the Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale, the Department of the Interior, through the BLM, is issuing a new final rule that responds to the comment.
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