"Public Lands: BLM Document Reveals Ambitious NEPA Overhaul"

"Last summer, the Interior Department gave its bureaus 30 days to decide how they would streamline environmental reviews of energy production, infrastructure build-out and other major actions on public lands.

The Bureau of Land Management has moved aggressively on its list of priorities, which are listed in a Sept. 27, 2017, report obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act. Many more changes are still to come.

BLM officials developed a list of more than 100 actions to carry out the directives outlined in Secretarial Order 3355 and a March 2017 memorandum that followed the repeal of an Obama-era planning rule (Energywire, March 8, 2017). About half would take six months to one year, and most would be complete by 2019, BLM anticipated last fall."

Pamela King reports for EnergyWire August 14, 2018.

Source: EnergyWire, 08/15/2018