Documents
Public Protest Period (10/17/2025 through 11/17/2025)
The list of parcels, stipulations, and exhibits are available in the Sale Notice below under “3. Lease Sale Notice for Protest Period (10/17/2025 through 11/17/2025)”. Additionally, the Protest Period NEPA documents are available below under “4. NEPA for Protest Period (10/17/2025 through 11/17/2025).”
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 (4:00 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: "JANUARY 2026 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.
Click here to view the BLM New Mexico Public Web Map for the January 2026 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale. To view the parcels specific to this lease sale on the web map site, click on the stack of paper (layers) icon in the top right corner of the page and select the layers that begin with 01/2026.
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Public
Comment Period on Draft EA (8/1/2025 through 9/2/2025)
Public comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA)
and unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) will be accepted
electronically via the BLM Land Use Planning and NEPA Register (e-Planning) by navigating to the Documents tab. All supplemental information,
such as references, should be included with your comment submitted through e-Planning.
If the supplemental information is too large to be submitted through e-Planning,
supplemental information can be submitted through a secure file transfer
application or external media device. All external media devices are required
to be scanned for viruses. If the device is determined to not be safe, then it
will be returned to the sender.
Please note that the most useful public comments are substantive comments that
do one or more of the following: question, with reasonable basis, the accuracy
of information or methodology or assumptions, present new information relevant
to the analysis or reasonable alternatives other than those analyzed, cause
changes or revisions in the alternatives being analyzed, or contain new
technical or scientific information for the BLM to consider in the
environmental analysis to be prepared in compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Comments which contain only opinions or
preferences, or comments that are essentially identical to other comments will
not be specifically addressed in the environmental review process.
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.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal
identifying information in your public scoping comment, you should be aware
that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information –
may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review,
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Additional lease sale information, can be obtained online
at the New Mexico Lease Sale homepage.
For more information, contact BLM Land Law Examiner, Angelica Varela, at
505-954-2040 or email [email protected].
Click here to view the BLM New
Mexico Public Web Map for the January 2026 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale. To view the parcels specific
to this lease sale on the web map site, click on the stack of paper (layers)
icon in the top right corner of the page and select the layers that begin with 01/2026.