Last week, the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) published a notice to rescind the Biden-era Bureau of Land Management Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. The Rule created a path to convert multiple-use lands into specially protected areas, doing an end-run around Congress. It was a key regulation for the Biden administration to implement the 30×30 agenda.
Through Executive Order 12866, signed by President Clinton, OMB can review pending and finalized rules, and rescind these if deemed necessary. The April 14th notice initiates this process.
The Conservation Rule was rushed through Biden’s Department of the Interior, bypassing all the normal rulemaking reviews, making it particularly vulnerable to an OMB recission. Several cases have also been filed to overturn the regulation.
ASL filed comments challenging the rule on behalf of the Multiple-Use Alliance, a group of primarily Western counties whose economies were directly impacted.
Western Caucus Chairman, Dan Newhouse, and ASL’s executive director Margaret Byfield, penned a joint Op-Ed published in the Washington Times calling out the Biden Administration’s overreach when the rule was proposed.
