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Key Property Rights Provisions in House Interior Appropriations Act
Congress is using the appropriations process to stop the 30x30 agenda by defunding specific administrative actions that implement the land grab. On July 9, 2024, the full House...
New Coordination Guide Released
For the past few months, we have been preparing an updated Guide on how to use the powerful Coordination strategy that requires Federal agencies to make Federal plans and...
Congress Calls on President Trump to Implement Coordination
August 4, 2017 – Washington, D.C: Congressional leaders sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting that his Administration be the first to ensure meaningful coordination...
Streamlining BLM? – Implement Coordination
March 27, 2017, Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, issued a Memorandum to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) directing him to streamline the land use...
Texas Court Rules for Local Government Coordination
January 6, 2017 – HEMPSTEAD, TX: A Travis County District Court on Thursday, January 5th, ruled that the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) has a “duty to coordinate...
Local Governments Sue to Stop BLM’s New Resource Planning Rules
Today, counties in six western states and a soil and water conservation district filed suit in federal district court in Utah challenging new resource planning rules adopted by...
Texas State Agency Sued for Failure to Coordinate
HEMPSTEAD, TX – The Waller County Sub-Regional Planning Commission (Commission) filed suit in Travis District Court on Wednesday, October 26, against the Texas Department of...
Federal Rail Authority Controls Texas Department of Transportation
(Part 2 of a 2-Part Series on Federalism in Texas) On May 13, 2016, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) wrote a stunning letter to Waller County Judge Trey Duhon,...
EPA Trojan Horse Rolls Into Texas!
(Part 1 of a 2 Part Series) The State of Texas has a long history of opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory edicts, but interestingly, the Sunset...
Coalition Challenges BLM’s Proposed Planning Rules
A coalition of Local Governments and Associations filed comments today, challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed revisions to their planning rules (81 Fed. Reg....
Coordination Requested on BLM’s Proposed Planning Rules
April 12, 2016, six Counties and three Conservation Districts representing seven Western states (the Coordinating Local Governments) issued a letter to the Bureau of Land...
BLM Proposes New Rules that Erode Coordination
Coalition of Local Governments Formed to Stop Proposed Rules February 25, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released proposed new rules that govern how they develop and...
Separating the Men from the Boys
Coordination was recently described as the powerful tool for local governments that separates the men from the boys. The County Seat TV interviewed Kane County, Utah...
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