The Bureau of Land Management pushed back a planned lease sale on Alaska’s North Slope by more than a week because of a publishing mistake.
The new date for the sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) is March 18, according to a Tuesday news release from BLM. Bids will be accepted until March 16.
While the bureau intended to hold the sale on March 9, a “technical issue” led the wrong document to be published in the Federal Register last Friday, BLM said Tuesday. The agency’s rules require notice of a sale to be published in the government journal at least 30 days beforehand.
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BLM — which is part of the Interior Department — said it plans to publish a notice of the lease sale in Wednesday’s Federal Register.
