Interior outlines a four-year goal to reduce the federal land base

Interior’s reported four-year plan makes a smaller federal land base an official goal, with potential sales to states, localities, and Tribes, plus land transfers and exchanges to support development. Separately, lawmakers may seek a lame-duck public-lands omnibus covering a backlog of 14 Senate-passed bills awaiting House action and 94 House-passed bills pending in the Senate; time, votes, and presidential support are uncertain.