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New BLM director faces Colorado leasing protests

08/20/2007
The US Senate voted to confirm James L. Caswell as US Bureau of Land Management director on Aug. 3 after Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) removed the hold he had placed on the nomination (OGJ, Aug. 6, 2007, Newsletter). But Caswell and the US Department of Interior agency face other protests about oil and gas leasing from Colorado state and local government officials as well as other members of its congressional delegation.Salazar said that he would allow the nomination to proceed because US Sec. of the Interior Dirk A. Kempthorne agreed to give Colorado 120 days to review and comment on BLM’s plan to issue oil and gas leases on the Roan Plateau near Grand Junction.“What is just as ...
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