"The Biden administration plans to conduct an in-depth analysis of a series of public land orders issued in the final weeks of the Trump administration that sought to open 28 million acres of federal lands in Alaska to oil and gas development and mining activity.
The Bureau of Land Management will formally publish a notice of intent in tomorrow’s Federal Register to begin an environmental impact statement (EIS) studying so-called legal deficiencies in five public land orders signed in January 2021 by then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
The Biden administration in April 2021 placed those orders on a two-year moratorium while it analyzed the Bernhardt orders.
The public land orders BLM will analyze collectively cover 28 million acres in portions of the “Bay, Bering Sea-Western Interior, East Alaska, Kobuk-Seward Peninsula, and Ring of Fire planning areas,” according to a advance notice in today’s Federal Register."
