THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY
THE COALITION TO PROTECT AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS * FRIENDS OF THE EARTH U.S. * ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD * WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL
June 21, 2024
SUBMITTED VIA E-PLANNING
Andrew Archuleta
State Director
Wyoming Bureau of Land Management
5353 Yellowstone Road
Cheyenne, WY 82009
Project Contacts:
Allen Stegeman
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(307) 775-6259
Erik Norelius
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(307) 775-6284
Re: Comments on the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management 2024 Third Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (DOI-BLM-WY-0000-2024-0003-EA)
Dear State Director Archuleta:
Thank you for the opportunity to submit these comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (Draft FONSI) on parcels under consideration for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Wyoming 2024 Third Quarter Oil and Gas Lease Sale. Our organizations and members are deeply invested in sound stewardship of public lands and committed to ensuring that public land management prioritizes the health and resilience of ecosystems, equitably benefits the public, addresses environmental justice, protects biodiversity, and mitigates the impacts of climate change.
We are grateful for both the recently released final Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process Rule (Leasing Rule) and the earlier release of several Instruction Memoranda (IMs) implementing program reforms and provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).1See Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, H.R. 5376, 117th Cong. §§ 50262–63 (2022). We appreciate the BLM’s attention to properly applying the Leasing Rule’s provisions and the IMs for this lease sale.
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