The Bureau of Land Management has announced that the Federal Register will publish a Notice of Segregation of Public Lands for approximately 677,000 acres in six Western states to set aside solar energy zones.
With this notice, 24 tracts of BLM-administered land located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will be temporarily segregated from the location of mining claims or other land appropriations for a two-year period. This Notice of Segregation is made in accordance with an April 2011 Interim Temporary Final Rule designed to facilitate renewable energy development on public lands by temporarily closing them to the location of mining claims. The segregation applies to the filing of new mining claims and does not affect valid existing rights. Ogden Standard Examiner
