The Interior Department on Monday proposed new regulations for grazing on federal land without completing an environmental review, shifting some water quality standards enforcement to the states.
All existing air and water quality standards associated with grazing on public lands would be repealed under the proposal, which the department is advancing using a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act to avoid environmental review.
The proposal, which appeared in the Federal Register pre-publication notices Monday, applies to 155 million acres of Bureau of Land Management public lands in all Western states excluding Alaska, and will be open to ...