The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Department of the Interior (DOI), leases parcels of federal land to private entities to develop oil and gas from the federal onshore mineral estate. In exchange for the privilege to extract resources from federal lands, operators are required to reclaim—clean up—wells and surrounding sites. BLM is responsible for determining reclamation requirements, setting minimum bond values, and establishing what types of bonds it will accept.

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