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The lands are scattered across northern Minnesota in five counties.
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BLM veteran Kristin Bail will serve as the agency’s Acting Director, and Jody L. Hudson has been selected as the Assistant Director for Human Capital Management.
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Expansions Were Part of Day of Designation of National Monuments to Preserve Key Civil Rights Sites and the First National Monument to Civil War Reconstruction
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The review examined concerns about the federal coal program that have been raised by the Government Accountability Office, the Interior Department’s Inspector General, Members of Congress and the public.
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The rule provides flexibility in setting royalty rates lease-by-lease, and it requires oil shale operations to include environmental protection plans.
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As part of its continuing efforts to conserve habitat vital to healthy populations of the Greater Sage-Grouse in the West, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the draft proposal to withdraw a subset of lands that are sage-grouse strongholds from future mining claims.