Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

16. Department of the Interior · Minor

Revoke all remaining BLM Public Land Orders over 50 years old

Partially done

Printed page 530 16. Department of the Interior

“All other remaining BLM PLOs—all of which are more than 50 years old—should be revoked immediately.”

What has happened

  1. Partially done

    PLO 7966 partially revoked PLO 5180 as well as PLO 5150 — one of the "other remaining" orders the Quote names, and the only one. Of the fourteen Public Land Orders published in the window the rest run the other way: PLO 7960, 7961 and 7962 extend withdrawals for the Air Force and for electronic sites, PLO 7963, 7964, 7965 and 7967 create new National Defense Operating Area withdrawals, and PLO 7970 extends the Utah Lake Drainage Basin withdrawal. Only PLO 7969 (Calcasieu Radio Beacon Station, 2026-08-11) is a revocation, and it is not an Alaska order. No blanket revocation of BLM withdrawals more than fifty years old was found.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

One pair of 1972 orders has been partially revoked. Elsewhere in the window BLM has been extending withdrawals, not revoking them.

Action
rescind
Object
Remaining BLM Public Land Orders more than 50 years old
ID
1485