ELR Citation: 54 ELR 20093
No(s). 20-5382 (D.C. Cir. Jun 25, 2024)

The D.C. Circuit, 2-1, affirmed summary judgment for BLM in a challenge to the agency's 2003 final rule withdrawing a proposed rule that would have limited the maximum size of "mill sites" for mining claims on federal lands and instead codifying the agency's historical understanding that the governi...