The list of parcels, stipulations, and exhibits are available in the Sale Notice below under 3a. Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period. Additionally, the Protest Period NEPA documents are available below under 3b. NEPA for Protest Period.

Under regulation Title 43 CFR subpart 3120.13, the inclusion of a parcel in a Notice of Competitive Lease Sale may be protested. Protests received that do not meet the following requirements will be summarily dismissed.

           ♦ Submission of the protest to the BLM New Mexico State Office no later than close of business

                (4:30 PM local Mountain Time) on the last day of the protest period.

           ♦ Submission of a hardcopy protest mailed or hand delivered to:

                         BLM New Mexico State Office

                         Attention: State Director

                         301 Dinosaur Trail

                         Santa Fe, NM 87508

         ♦Protest may also be submitted through email at [email protected] with the subject line "Q1 2025 Protest.”       

           ♦ Inclusion of the name and address of the protesting party.

           ♦ If the party signing the protest is doing so on behalf of an association, partnership, or

                corporation (group), the signing party must reveal the relationship between the party and  the group. An individual member of a group cannot make a protest in the group's name without

authorization of the group.

           ♦ Reference to the specific parcel number(s) being protested.

           ♦ Disclosure of the party's interest in the parcel(s).

           ♦ Inclusion of a statement of reason(s) to support the protest of the specific parcel(s).

To the extent you submit exhibits or attachments to any submitted public comment, you must provide a summary of the attached documents, and explain why they are important for us to consider. If the submittal fails to include the requested summary, BLM may not consider any information in the exhibits or attachments during its decision-making process.

Any protest, including names and street addresses, submitted will be made available for public review. Individuals submitting a protest may request their personal identifiable information be withheld from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, by prominently stating this request at the beginning of the protest. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All protests received from associations, partnerships, corporations (groups) or individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of a group, will be made available for public inspection in their entirety.