This case involved a challenge to the BLM's development of a 2020 Categorical Exclusion for salvage projects and the Upper Willamette Field Office's Harvest Land Base salvage project in Oregon. The complaint alleged violations of the FLPMA, NEPA, and ESA.
Parties agreed to a settlement and BLM will issue a Federal Register notice proposing to eliminate the Salvage CX
from the Department's NEPA implementing procedures for the BLM at Chapter 11 of Part 516 of the Departmental Manual, and will exercise best efforts to complete the administrative process and to issue
a new decision on this proposal by September 2024.