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Protest of BLM’s Notice of Competitive oil and Gas Lease Sale for Selected Parcels in New Mexico and Oklahoma
Our review of the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) list of parcels being offered for oil and gas leasing on January 19, 2005 indicates that many of the parcels possess important biodiversity, ecological, and cultural values which will be compromised by oil and gas leasing. We further note that in offering these parcels for lease, the BLM has failed to adequately comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) requirement to provide an up-to-date, site-specific analysis of the proposed action that takes into account the special qualities of the area and the cumulative impacts of oil and gas development in the region..