Notice2026-11149
Termination of the Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Miles City Field Office, Montana, and an Associated Environmental Assessment
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Published
June 4, 2026
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing the termination of the land use planning process described in the notice of intent (NOI) published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2025, for the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Miles City Resource Management Plan.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 107 (Thursday, June 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33733-33734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-11149]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[A2407-014-004-065516; #O2509-014-004-125222; LLHQ/Montana]
Termination of the Resource Management Plan Amendment for the
Miles City Field Office, Montana, and an Associated Environmental
Assessment
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of termination.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing the
termination of the land use planning process described in the notice of
intent (NOI) published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2025, for the
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Miles City Resource Management
Plan.
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DATES: The land use planning process described in the NOI is
discontinued as of the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irma Nansel, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Miles City Field Office, telephone: (406)
233-3653; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#09606768677a6c65496b6564276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cda4a3aca3bea8a18dafa1a0e3aaa2bb">[email protected]</span></a>; address: 111 Garryowen Road, Miles
City, MT 59301. Individuals in the United States who are deafblind,
hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services for contacting
Ms. Nansel. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay
services offered within their country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as well as 43 CFR 1610.2(c),
the BLM on July 8, 2025, published an NOI in the Federal Register
announcing that it planned to prepare an EA, and have a concurrent
public-scoping period, on the proposed analysis (90 FR 30092). To
preserve agency resources, and in consideration of subsequent
legislative and Secretarial actions, the BLM is now discontinuing this
planning and NEPA process.
On December 11, 2025, in accordance with the Congressional Review
Act (CRA), 5 U.S.C. 801-808, the President signed a joint resolution
into law disapproving the November 2024 Miles City Field Office
Resource Management Plan Amendment. Public Law 119-48. A rule nullified
under the CRA must be treated as though it never took effect. As such,
the 2024 RMP Amendment, including the coal-allocation decision the BLM
announced as a preliminary alternative in the NOI, should be treated as
though it never took effect and the 2015 Miles City Field Office
Resource Management Plan, as amended in January 2021 and as otherwise
amended, except as by the disapproved amendment, is now in effect for
the Miles City Planning Area.
The BLM has also maintained the 2015 Miles City Field Office
Resource Management Plan, as amended in January 2021, to reflect the
Secretary of the Interior's action pursuant to section 50203 of the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) (Pub. L. 119-21 (2025)). See 90 FR 47813
(Oct. 2, 2025). The Secretary of the Interior implemented section 50203
of the OBBB by, in part, making 6,859,330 BLM-administered coal acres
available for further consideration for coal leasing in the Miles City
Field Office. The acreage made available in the 2021 Record of
Decision/Approved RMP Amendment was maintained with the acres made
available pursuant to section 50203 of the OBBB, resulting in an
allocation of 6,989,390 BLM-administered coal acres available for
further consideration for leasing.
While the BLM does not intend to issue a Proposed Plan Amendment/
Final EA or a Decision Record for this planning process, it will
continue to work with cooperating agencies and stakeholders in the
implementation of the existing land use plans.
(Authority: 43 CFR 1610.2)
Gerald T. Davis,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 2026-11149 Filed 6-3-26; 8:45 am]
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