Productive Public Lands Act

This bill tells the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management to quickly reissue several land management plans and decisions and lock in a specific “preferred option” for each one. It covers plans for nine BLM offices and plan updates, including Buffalo, Grand Junction, Colorado River Valley, Miles City, Rock Springs, Eastern Colorado (Royal Gorge), a Colorado big-game habitat oil and gas plan, Lakeview, and the Gunnison sage-grouse plan. The agency must do this within 60 days after the bill becomes law, using the options named in the bill (A, B, or C, depending on the location).

It also says these reissued plans will count as meeting federal environmental and land-use rules and will not need any extra environmental review before taking effect.

• Who is affected: The Bureau of Land Management and the areas listed above.
• What changes: Reissue the named plans and set the specific “preferred options”; no additional environmental studies are required.
• When: Within 60 days after it becomes law.