Notice2026-11151
Termination of the Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo Field Office, Wyoming, 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) to amend the Buffalo Resource Management Plan.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 107 (Thursday, June 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Page 33733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-11151]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[A2407-014-004-065516; #O2509-014-004-125222; LLHQ/Wyoming]
Termination of the Resource Management Plan Amendment for the
Buffalo Field Office, Wyoming, 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) to amend the Buffalo Resource Management
Plan.
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: Thomas Bills, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Buffalo Field Office, telephone: (307) 684-
1133; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a3e28232626390a282627642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4430262d282837042628296a232b32">[email protected]</span></a>; address: 1425 Fort Street, Buffalo, WY.
Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services for contacting
Mr. Bills. 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 30093). 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 2024 Buffalo Field Office Resource Management
Plan Amendment. Public Law 119-51. 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 Buffalo Field Office Resource Management
Plan, as amended in November 2019 and as otherwise amended, except as
by the disapproved amendment, is now in effect for the Buffalo Planning
Area.
The BLM has also maintained the 2015 Buffalo Field Office Resource
Management Plan, as amended in 2019, 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 2,338,995 BLM-administered coal acres
available for further consideration for coal leasing in the Buffalo
Field Office. The acreage made available in the 2019 Buffalo 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 2,614,310 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 plan.
(Authority: 43 CFR 1610.2)
Tanya M. Thrift,
Acting Wyoming State Director.
[FR Doc. 2026-11151 Filed 6-3-26; 8:45 am]
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