The Interior Department is circulating a streamlined version of its draft strategic plan for the next four years, leaving out some of the more contentious proposals that were included in an earlier draft reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
Interior is asking for input from Native American and Alaska Native tribal leaders on the latest draft strategic plan.
The proposal still promotes Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s vision for increasing oil and gas production on public lands, and “streamlining and cutting regulations” that hamper advancing what’s listed as the agency’s No. 1 goal to “Restore American Prosperity.”
The plan, set to be formally released in October, also continues to characterize public lands and the mineral resources contained within them as “assets” that need to be exploited for economic gain.
