BLM Reinstates 2013 Land Management Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

On April, 25, 2022, the Bureau of Land Management issued a Record of Decision reverting the Integrated Activity Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to that approved in 2013. The Record of Decision replaces the plan adopted by the Trump administration in 2020. The new Integrated Activity Plan reduces the percentage of land in the National Petroleum Reserve available for oil and gas leasing from roughly 82% to roughly 52%.