BLM Public Land Order 7917 Disapproval (Minnesota National Forest Mineral Withdrawal)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-21 — Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act: cross-connection with boundary-waters-wilderness-mining-withdrawal: Legislative permanent withdrawal in the Rainy River Watershed runs parallel to (and would supersede) the administrative PLO 7917 approach that a separate CRA disapproval resolution seeks to overturn — same lands, opposite policy directions. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-04-27 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.: Congress enacted P.L. 119-85 under the Congressional Review Act, nullifying BLM Public Land Order 7917 and reopening approximately 225,504 acres of National Forest System lands in Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN to mineral and geothermal leasing (including areas within the Rainy River watershed upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness). (novelty: 3)
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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.
27-apr-2026
novelty 3
per-area 3
introduces