Four lease sales a year are required in each of nine states
What the document says“each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of 4 oil and gas lease sales of available land in each of the following States:”
The section requires at least four oil and gas lease sales of available land each fiscal year in Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nevada and Alaska. In each sale the Secretary must offer at least 50 percent of available parcels nominated for oil and gas development under the resource management plan in effect for the relevant Bureau of Land Management areas in that State, and may not confine the parcels offered to one Bureau of Land Management field office unless every nominated parcel sits in that office's area.
What the document actually says“each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of 4 oil and gas lease sales of available land in each of the following States:”
The Interior Secretary must hold at least four lease sales a year. They must be held in each state on the list below.
Nine states are named. In each sale at least half the parcels people asked for must be offered. The sale may not be limited to one field office.
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