16. Department of the Interior · Minor
Review resource management plans and strip out 30 by 30 decisions
Printed page 523 16. Department of the Interior
“Review all resource management plans finalized in the previous four years and, when necessary, select studied alternatives to restore the multi-use concept enshrined in FLPMA and to eliminate management decisions that advance the 30 by 30 agenda.”
What has happened
- Partially done
BLM fully rescinded the Conservation and Landscape Health rule of May 2024 — the rule that made conservation a "use" on a par with grazing and drilling and was the planning-level vehicle for the 30 by 30 agenda — "restor[ing] balance to federal land management under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield". BLM then terminated the Buffalo and Miles City plan amendments it had opened (2026-06-04), the plans having been nullified by Congress instead. Interior has published no statement that the review of every plan finalized in the previous four years is complete, so this stays a set of pieces rather than the whole sweep.
- Partially done
Congress nullified four BLM plan decisions in a single day under the Congressional Review Act — Miles City (P.L. 119-48), the North Dakota Field Office (P.L. 119-49), Central Yukon (P.L. 119-50) and Buffalo (P.L. 119-51) — after nullifying the NPR-A Integrated Activity Plan ROD on 2025-12-05 (P.L. 119-47) and alongside the Coastal Plain ROD (P.L. 119-52). BLM had already terminated the Cedar City plan (2025-06-10) and opened amendments for Buffalo, Miles City and Rock Springs.
- Public Law 119-48 — congressional disapproval of the BLM Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment
- Public Law 119-51 — congressional disapproval of the BLM Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment
- Public Law 119-50 — congressional disapproval of the BLM Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan
- BLM: Rescission and Termination of the Preparation of a Resource Management Plan for the Cedar City Field Office, Utah
- Attempted
SO 3418 §4(c) directs "actions to review and, as appropriate, revise all relevant draft and all finalized resource management plans" and names five by Federal Register citation: Rock Springs, the Greater Sage-Grouse rangewide amendment, Buffalo, Miles City and the Coastal Plain. A review directive with nothing yet revised.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Two instruments do this work: the Congressional Review Act, which nullified five Biden resource management plan decisions outright, and the rescission of the Conservation and Landscape Health rule, which was the regulatory vehicle for the conservation-as-a-use idea the Mandate calls 30 by 30. #1493 carries the executive order itself.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- Resource management plans finalized in the previous four years
- ID
- 1467