Are any areas with high geothermal potential excluded from consideration and if so, why?
Yes. Some units or portions of areas identified as having geothermal resource potential would not be available for leasing and development because they have been withdrawn by statute, regulation, or administrative authority. These include, but are not limited to, lands where the Secretary has determined that issuing a lease would cause unnecessary or undue degradation to public lands and resources; lands within a unit of the National Park System (for example, geothermal features in and around Yellowstone National Park); wilderness areas, wilderness study areas (WSAs), fish hatcheries, wildlife management areas; Indian trust lands; and other areas described in 43 CFR 3201.11 Examples of other areas that would be subject to discretionary closure under the Proposed Action include Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs), where the BLM determines that geothermal leasing and development would be incompatible with the purposes for which an ACEC was designated or those ACECs whose mana
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