
Lost Revenue: 2,800 Federal Lease Applications Pending with Average Wait Time of 257 Days
Interior Sec. Zinke Signs Order To Streamline Federal Onshore O&G Lease Permit Process As of January 31, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had 2,802 Applications for Permit to Drill (APD) pending, and despite the fact that statute requires that the DOI and the BLM process APD reviews within 30 days, the average time to process an APD in