Alaskans should prepare for major changes to the unique legal framework governing tribal lands in Alaska. In mid-November, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it.
On November 16, the Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior issued Opinion M-37076, clarifying that the Secretary of the Interior does in fact have authority to acquire land.
On 29 September 2021, the U.S. Department of Interior (Interior) announced a series of actions to unwind a Trump-era rule in an effort to “to ensure that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
A series of actions were announced to revoke the Trump-era regulation that limited the scope of the MBTA and announced the intent to develop regulations that establish a permitting system to authorize the incidental take of migratory birds in certain circumstances.
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On 7 January 2021, the Trump administration finalized a new rule that limits the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA or the Act).
1 Under the new rule (which President Biden has already directed the Department of the Interior (Interior) to review), the Fish and Wildlife Service (the FWS) has declared that the MBTA covers only intentional, and not incidental, take of protected birds, memorializing a memorandum that was rejected by a federal court last August.
2 The new rule if it withstands legal challenges and efforts by the Biden administration and Congress to reverse it significantly reduces the activities that would result in liability under the Act, and as a result, reduces the risks businesses and developers face.