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County staff: BLM draft EIS to enter 30-day cooperating-agency review; Thunder Basin mapping expected in September

5419136 · July 17, 2025
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County staff reported the Newcastle BLM will send an administrative draft of a final EIS for cooperating-agency review with a 30-day comment period, and provided updates on Black Hills/roadless inventory rulemaking and the Thunder Basin National Grassland working group's mapping work.

County staff provided several natural-resource updates to the board, including that the Newcastle office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had notified the county it would provide an administrative draft of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for cooperating-agency review.

Staff said the county had not yet received the administrative draft but that, once received, the county will have 30 days to review. “We were supposed to get it yesterday for a 30 day review. This is not a…

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