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2020 Interior Dec. (IBLA) 1 (2020)

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                 United  States  Department of the Interior
                         Office of Hearings and  Appeals
                            Interior Board of Land Appeas
                            801  N. Quincy St, Suite 300
                                Arlington, VA 22203

                  703-235-3750                   703-235-8349 (fax)


                        WILDEARTH   GUARDIANS,   ET AL.

IBLA 2016-279                                          Decided August 26, 2020

      Appeal from a decision of the Acting State Director, Utah State Office, Bureau of
Land Management,  authorizing a competitive coal lease sale. UTU-84102.

      Affirmed.

APPEARANCES:   Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, Esq., WildEarth Guardians, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, for WildEarth Guardians; Michael A. Saul, Esq., Center for Biological Diversity,
Denver, Colorado, for Center for Biological Diversity; Aaron M. Paul, Esq., and Neil
Levine, Esq., Grand Canyon Trust, Denver, Colorado, and Mary H. O'Brien, Grand
Canyon Trust, Castle Valley, Utah, for Grand Canyon Trust; Nathaniel Shoaff, Esq.,
Sierra Club, Oakland, California, for Sierra Club; Sarah Goldberg, Esq., and William
Prince, Esq., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Michael Drysdale, Esq.,
Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Canyon Fuel Company, LLC; Kathy
A.F. Davis, Esq., Anthony Rampton, Esq., Roger Fairbanks, Esq., and Jake M. Garfield,
Esq., Utah Attorney General's Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, for the State of Utah; Molly E.
Nixon, Esq., Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
and John Steiger, Esq., Office of the Regional Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior,
Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Bureau of Land Management.

              OPINION  BY ACTING  ADMINISTRATIVE   JUDGE LEVINE'

      WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, and
the Sierra Club (collectively, WildEarth) appeal from a Record of Decision, DOI-BLM-UT-
070-2008-14, issued by the Utah State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)




1 Administrative Judge Haugrud took no part in the consideration or decision of this
appeal.


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