Department of the Interior

What the document says

“Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals.”

The chapter states there are 95,000 wild horses and burros on nearly 32 million acres, triple what it says the range can support, that the population has more than doubled in ten years and grows at 10 to 15 percent annually, and that more than 47,000 already gathered are held in off-range corrals at a cost of nearly $50 million a year. It cites a 2019 joint policy of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the American Veterinary Medical Association calling for further reducing overpopulation, endorsed by the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, and says the ASPCA and the Humane Society recognize that unchecked herd growth threatens the animals. It lists the BLM's 2020 approach, which includes expanded adoptions and sales of gathered horses, increased gathers and holding capacity, fertility control and contraceptive research, and says all of that will not be enough.

What the document says

“the new Administration must seek repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906”

The Antiquities Act lets a President designate national monuments by proclamation. The chapter argues it permitted emergency action before statutory authority existed to protect special federal lands, and that in recent years Congress has designated as monuments the areas deserving it. It separately says the Trump review of monument designations was insufficient because only two monuments in one state were adjusted, names Maine and Oregon as places where downward adjustments should have followed, and asks that such adjustments be vigorously defended to obtain a Supreme Court ruling on a President's authority to shrink a monument.

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“A new Administration must immediately roll back Biden’s orders, reinstate the Trump-era Energy Dominance Agenda”

The chapter asks for the immediate reinstatement of a list of Trump-era secretarial orders and for the rescission of current ones, and separately for quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in all producing states, following an earlier instruction memorandum with expanded public notice and comment.

What the document says

“Reinstate quarterly onshore lease sales in all producing states”

The chapter asks that these follow the model of an earlier BLM instruction memorandum with the adjustment of expanded public notice and comment, and that the Administration work with Congress on legislation including the Lease Now Act.

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“the new Administration must immediately approve the Ambler Road Project”

The chapter says approval would permit construction of a 211-mile roadway on the south side of the Brooks Range, and that it should proceed under the Secretary's authority in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and on the basis of the project's final environmental impact statement. It describes Alaska as having vast untapped mineral potential.

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

The chapter states that Alaska and Alaska Natives each still have 5 million acres of entitlement outstanding, that public land orders issued by the BLM stand in the way, and that revoking one order in particular would deliver 1.3 million acres to the state and should be a top priority.

What the document says

“Consideration should be given, for example, to eliminating judicial review of the adequacy of NEPA documents”

The chapter raises this as something to consider rather than as a recommendation, and says it would allow Congress to engage in effective oversight of federal agencies when prudent. It separately asks that Trump-era environmental review reforms be restored, including time and page limits.

What the document says

“the new Administration must immediately fulfill its responsibilities and manage the O&C lands for “permanent forest production””

The O&C lands are Oregon forest lands governed by a 1937 statute requiring management for permanent forest production, with timber to be sold, cut and removed. The chapter says doing so would fulfill the congressional mandate, provide employment in rural Oregon and reduce the effects of wildfires.

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“Meaningful reform of the Endangered Species Act requires that Congress take action to restore its original purpose”

The chapter says the act is used to seize private property, prevent economic development and interfere with the rights of states over their wildlife populations, and asks Congress to end those uses. It says a new Administration should take immediate action in the meantime.

What the document says

“A new Administration should reinstate it.”

The policy required the department to display and provide open access to all litigation settlements it entered and any attorneys' fees paid to end the litigation. The chapter says the current department ended the policy because the settlements it planned to enter and the fees it expected to pay would cause controversy.

What the document says

“President Trump’s Schedule F proposal”

The full passage says the Schedule F proposal on accountability in hiring must be reinstituted to bring success to these reforms. The chapter also says states are better resource managers than the federal government because they must live with the results, and asks the department to broaden state and tribal cooperative agreements. Schedule F is the subject of a separate proposal in chapter 3.