The US Bureau of Land Management opened a 30-day public comment period on Dec. 2 on an environmental assessment for a proposed oil well in southwestern Montana near Lima. Comments will be accepted until Dec. 30.
The oil and gas division in BLM’s Great Falls North Central District Office said it is seeking comments on behalf of the US Department of the Interior agency’s Dillion field office and the US Forest Service’s Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest on an Environmental Assessment for the Tendoy drilling permit application.
The site-specific EA analyzes potential impacts from a Lima Exploration Co. proposal to drill an exploratory oil well on public lands about 16 miles southwest of Lima, Mont., BLM indicated.
It said that the assessment was prepared jointly by BLM and the USFS, since one potential location is on the BLM and the other is on Forest Service lands. The application is available online for public review at https://go.usa.gov/xpnB3.
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Nick Snow
NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.