Rule 17 Jul 2025 compliance, bureau of land management, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, mineral resources, wilderness areas, public lands, public lands-mineral resources, mines, national forests, mining regulation

⛏️Rescission of BLM Regulations on Mineral Locations

This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations addressing mineral locations within National Forest System lands.

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Rule 17 Jul 2025 compliance, mining, regulations, bureau of land management, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, wilderness areas, resource management, economic impact, public lands-mineral resources, mines, national forests

⛏️Rescission of Mining Assessment Work Regulations by BLM

This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations addressing areas subject to special mining laws, O&C Lands.

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Rule 3 Jul 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulations, environmental protection, usda, administrative practice and procedure, grant programs, natural resources, environmental impact statements, housing, loan programs, nepa, environmental policy, science and technology, utilities, buildings and facilities, national forests, federal projects

🌱USDA Interim Final Rule on NEPA Regulations Revisions

This interim final rule modifies the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and removes various USDA agency regulations for implementing NEPA. USDA is taking this action in response to the Council on Environmental Quality's rescission of its NEPA implementing regulations (which USDA's NEPA regulations were designed to supplement), statutory changes to NEPA, executive orders, and case law. Comments are voluntarily requested on this action to inform USDA's decision-making.

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Rule 5 Jun 2025 regulatory compliance, usda, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, forest service, recreation and recreation areas, national forests, public lands-rights-of-way, ski areas, national forest system

⛷️USDA Forest Service Revises Ski Area Authorization Regulations

The United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency) is making purely technical, clarifying revisions to its existing regulations relating to the conversion of ski area authorizations on National Forest System lands (NFS) pursuant to the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986. The revisions remove the requirements for conversion of ski area authorizations because all ski area authorizations on NFS have been converted or issued under the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act, rendering this provision obsolete.

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Proposed Rule 30 May 2025 regulations, transportation, safety, infrastructure, public lands, bridges, grant programs-transportation, highways and roads, forest service, federal highway administration, asset management, national forests

🌳FHWA Proposes Rescinding Regulations for Forest Highway Management

FHWA proposes to rescind the regulations issued on February 27, 2004, Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the Forest Service and the Forest Highway Program.

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Rule 21 Apr 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulation, grazing, national forests, range management

🌿USDA's Revisions to Grazing Advisory Boards Regulations

The United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency) is making purely technical, clarifying revisions to its existing regulations governing the establishment and maintenance of grazing advisory boards on National Forest System lands (NFS). The revisions remove the provisions for grazing advisory boards to ensure consistency of the existing regulations with governing statutes.

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Compliance, Economic Impact, Regulatory Changes 21 Jan 2025 agriculture, administrative practice and procedure, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, alaska, interior department, public lands, fish, wildlife regulations, subsistence management, national forests, hunting

🦌Implications of Alaska's Subsistence Management Regulations 2026

This proposed rule would establish regulations for hunting and trapping seasons, harvest limits, and methods and means related to taking of wildlife for subsistence uses during the 2026-27 and 2027-28 regulatory years. The Federal Subsistence Board (hereafter referred to as "the Board") is on a schedule of completing the process of revising subsistence taking of wildlife regulations in even-numbered years and subsistence taking of fish and shellfish regulations in odd- numbered years; public proposal and review processes take place during the preceding year. The Board also addresses customary and traditional use determinations during the applicable cycle. When final, the resulting rulemaking will replace the existing subsistence wildlife taking regulations. This proposed rule could also amend the general regulations on subsistence taking of fish and wildlife.

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