Rescission of Regulations Regarding Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale

What it does

Due to the receipt of a substantive comment on the direct final rule (DFR) rescinding portions of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address the Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale, the Department of the Interior, through the BLM, is issuing a new final rule that responds to the comment.

The Land Management Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

43 CFR 3500

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Land Management Bureau has published 4 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 34 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1004-AF18 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• July 17, 2025 Direct final rule; request for comments. Rescission of Regulations Regarding Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale

What happens next and when

The effective date of September 15, 2025, for the direct final rule published on July 17, 2025 (90 FR 33310) is confirmed. This final rule is effective on March 23, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket BLM-2025-0004 on Regulations.gov
• Title 43 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register