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declining. Additionally, 42 percent of coal production takes place on federal lands in 11 states.’ DOI manages a subsurface mineral estate of 700 million acres onshore and 1.76 billion acres offshore, for a total of 2.46 billion acres.

The total land area of the U.S. is 2.263 billion acres. Private and state lands, at 1.563 billion acres, make up only 39 percent of the total onshore and offshore subsurface area of the United States. Oil, natural gas, coal, and other minerals on federal lands and waters are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; these agencies’ responsibilities frequently overlap with resource management by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, state governments, and private property owners.

Biden is “aligning the management of...public lands and waters...to support robust climate action,” as envisioned in Executive Orders 14008 and 13990." One of his first actions was to ban federal coal, oil, and natural gas leasing on federal lands and waters to fulfill his campaign promise of “no federal oil,” followed by actions from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to rescind the Trump Administration’s Energy Dominance Agenda. To this end, DOI unilaterally overhauled resource management plans, lease sales, fees, rents, royalty rates, bonding requirements, and permitting processes to prevent new production of coal, oil, and natural gas on federal lands and waters; to dramatically increase production of solar and wind energy; and to accomplish its “30 by 30,” “America the Beautiful” agenda to remove federal lands from “multiple”—that is, productive—use.

DOL is abusing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) processes, the Antiquities Act,’ and bureaucratic procedures to advance a radical climate agenda, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for which DOI has no statutory responsibility or authority.’° The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OSCLA), General Mining Law,” and other congressional acts clearly set forth multiple-use principles and processes that include production of coal, oil, natural gas, and other minerals, as legitimate activities consistent with the welfare of all Americans and of environmental stewardship.

Biden’s DOI is hoarding supplies of energy and keeping them from Americans whose lives could be improved with cheaper and more abundant energy while making the economy stronger and providing job opportunities for Americans. DOT is a bad manager of the public trust and has operated lawlessly in defiance of congressional statute and federal court orders.

ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES

Rollbacks. A new Administration must immediately roll back Biden’s orders, reinstate the Trump-era Energy Dominance Agenda, rescind Secretarial Order (SO) 3398, and review all regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and

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similar agency actions made in compliance with that order.'* Meanwhile, the new Administration must immediately reinstate the following Trump DOI secretarial orders:

• §0 3348: Concerning the Federal Coal Moratorium;”

• $0 3349: American Energy Independence;?°

• $0 3350: America-First Offshore Energy Strategy;”!

• $0 3351: Strengthening the Department of the Interior’s Energy Portfolio;”

• §03352: National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska;*

• S$03354: Supporting and Improving the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program and Federal Solid Mineral Leasing Program;*

• $0 3355: Streamlining National Environmental Policy Reviews and Implementation of Executive Order 13807, “Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review and Permitting Process for

Infrastructure Projects”;?°

• $0 3358: Executive Committee for Expedited Permitting;”°

• $0 3360: Rescinding Authorities Inconsistent with Secretary’s Order 3349,

“American Energy Independence;”””

• S03380: Public Notice of the Costs Associated with Developing Department of the Interior Publications and Similar Documents;7°

• S§03385: Enforcement Priorities;?? and

• $0 3389: Coordinating and Clarifying National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Reviews.*°

Actions. At the same time, the new Administration must: • Reinstate quarterly onshore lease sales in all producing states according to the model of BLM’s IM 2018-034, with the slight adjustment of including

expanded public notice and comment.*! The new Administration should work with Congress on legislation, such as the Lease Now Act® and