87 FR 34234
The Forest Service seeks comment on the framework, focus, and direction of its wildfire crisis implementation plan associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and specific provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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87 FR 24851
The president issued Executive Order No. 14072, Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies; among other things, the order directs federal agencies to inventory old-growth and mature forests on federal lands and develop policies to protect them from threats like wildfire and climate change, and to develop a federal goal for meeting agency-specific reforestation targets by 2030.
87 FR 4498
OSM approved an amendment to Missouri's coal mining regulations that reduced the volume of the regulations without reducing the program's requirements under SMCRA.
87 FR 1372
OSM announced the receipt of and seeks comment on a proposed amendment to the Montana regulatory program pertaining to ownership and control under SMCRA.
Mining Our Future Critical Minerals: Does Darkness Await Us?
We are told the transition to a zero-carbon economy will depend upon the United States’ ability to assure a sufficient supply of rare earths and minerals such as cobalt, nickel, or lithium. The Biden Administration is intent on promoting some new form of a critical mineral policy, and calls for reforming the 1872 Mining Law have persisted for well over one hundred years. This Article is designed to provoke a meaningful conversation about a critical minerals policy informed by our past.
86 FR 59019
OSM approved an amendment to the Wyoming abandoned mine land reclamation plan under SMCRA.
86 FR 59674
OSM announced a proposed regulatory and statutory amendment to the Wyoming coal program under SMCRA.
86 FR 55757
CEQ proposed to modify aspects of its regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA to generally restore regulatory provisions that were in effect before modifications in 2020.
86 FR 52384
NOAA announced that the Deepwater Horizon federal natural resource trustee agencies for the regionwide trustee implementation group prepared the "Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment 1: Birds, Marine Mammals, Oysters, and Sea Turtles" and FONSI in accordance with OPA, NEPA, and a consent decree with BP Exploration and Production Inc.
86 FR 42879
BLM proposed to reinstate four competitive oil and gas leases in Oklahoma.