BLM seeks comments on Nevada land for possible oil, gas leasing
Nov. 20, 2015
The US Bureau of Land Management’s Battle Mountain District office in Nevada is asking for public comments on 67 parcels of public land, totaling 116,990 acres, which have been nominated for potential oil and gas leasing. The tracts are in Big Smokey and Railroad Valleys in Lander and Nye County, BLM said Nov. 16 in a scoping document.
The US Bureau of Land Management’s Battle Mountain District office in Nevada is asking for public comments on 67 parcels of public land, totaling 116,990 acres, which have been nominated for potential oil and gas leasing. The tracts are in Big Smokey and Railroad Valleys in Lander and Nye County, BLM said Nov. 16 in a scoping document.
Comments will be accepted through Nov. 30. The district office said that an environmental assessment is being prepared, which it expects to make available in February 2016, for a lease sale which would be held the following June.
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.
