Book Description

"This Buffalo Field Office Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment is in response to the federal district court’s order in Western Organization of Resource Councils, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, Civil Action No. CV 16-21-GF-BMM (D. Mont. 2017). The background and rationale for approving the attached RMP Amendment are described in this ROD. This RMP Amendment addresses BLM-administered coal leasing allocation, downstream analysis of coal, oil, and gas combustion, and justifies time horizon of the estimated global warming potential impacts for the Buffalo Field Office in order to satisfy the claims in the court order. The decision is hereby made to approve the attached RMP Amendment which makes 496,314 acres of federal coal acceptable for future leasing"--Page 1-1.