they gave it to blm.immediately after it was purchased chemical company started applying for visas and are congressman did not like the fact that the army corps -- applying for leases. now there are 13,000 acres under lease from blm. it is difficult to fight this. west virginia is one of the richest states in the united states with coal, minerals, and we are the poorest state in the united states. we currently have mining above it, but it will be stripped under arrest in the army corps of engineers says if the mining occurs that it would endanger the dam. i would like to know what the gentleman could possibly look into this or is possibly familiar with it. host: david givens. but i i'm not familiar, appreciate the sense of history in this gives a good example of what the bureau does. for instance, it is responsible for the management of mineral rights for other federal agencies like the army corps of engineers and it often works closely with it. it sounds like, in this case, the bureau is in control of th

so let's say lots of people come in and put fake bids in blm auctions, it would disrupt the blm auctionraud i committed? >> i can't adjudicate. i mean, i don't think that's a proper sentence. i agree that, like, part of the main problem here, the funny thing about thorough, of course, is he refused to pay the poll source. side note, i think that, yeah, you have to embrace the punishment of the certain level. and obviously, all of that tradition comes from that. >> gandhi would write a letter and say here's the names and addresses of everyone participating. and we are going to do it at this time on this date because the point is, we're not ambushing you. we want you to be fully prepared to arrest us. we feel it is a moral responsibility to rake break unjust laws. but the punishment needs to address the crime. >> i want to talk about something that has been lighting up the internet and news this week. pink slime? we tried to get some. we don't have any, unfortunately. the arguments for pink slime, pink slime became a political issue. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a cha

we are working to deploy a new system for processing permits a on blm lands. we expect to reduce and permitting times by two-thirds. there is a common theme in all of this, tackling a problem head on, getting it done right, and moving on to the next challenge because we know there are other challenges ahead. offshore ocean energy development in the united states. onshore and the many reforms we have brought. the last area, where we have spent a significant amount of time, in a tour of renewable energy world. in 2009, when i first came to the department of the interior, not a single solar energy project had been approved for construction on the public lands of the american people. offshore, it had been a disaster from day one. languishing for eight years in a process that seem to have no end. since 2009, we moved in a new direction, it achieving results. we have authorized a 29 geothermal projects on lands. i have been there and seen these projects rising out of the desert. they will make believers out of the skeptics. when these are built, it will provide over

to other parts of the section involving recreational shooting uncertain blm lands. this is provision determined necessary because the bureau of land management in recent years has taken a series of steps very hostile to traditional recreational shooting out there, particularly in the west. >> host: this is land of structure in place to allow you to hunt or fish? >> guest: this would basically be recreational shooting. you go someplace, obviously far out of town, put tin cans on iraq and use them plinking and target shooting and that type. the provisions of the bill are designed to overcome some recent decisions by blm that are very hostile to this activity and even though the agency later backed off on a lot of that, but lucian was we need to codify that. we need to make this fix and statute. the fourth feature is a very specific six. canada for many years has allowed hunting of polar bears because withstanding the fact that they are deemed threatened under the endangered species act, present polar bear our record highs. canada allows hunting. here is americans are

two other parts, there's a section involving recreational shooting on certain blm land.his is provision determined to be necessary because the bureau of land management in recent years has taken a series of steps very hostile to traditional recreational shooting out there in particularly the west. >> host: these are lands that have some structure in place that al lo lous you to hunt and fish? >> this is not structure this recreational shooting go out someplace, obviously far out of town. put tin cans on a rock and do plinking and shooting and target shooting of that type. the provisions in the bill are designed to overcome recent decisions by blm very hostile to this activity. even though the agency basically backed off on a lot of that the conclusion we need to codify that fix. we need to make the fix in statute. the fourth feature is a real, very specific fix, canada, for many years has allowed hunting of polar bears because, not with standing the fact that they're deemed threatened under the endangered species act, president polar bear populations are record highs. ca

we are working to deploy a new system for processing permits a on blm lands.e expect to reduce and permitting times by two-thirds. there is a common theme in all of this, tackling a problem head on, getting it done right, and moving on to the next challenge because we know there are other challenges ahead. offshore ocean energy development in the united states. onshore and the many reforms we have brought. the last area, where we have spent a significant amount of time, in a tour of renewable energy world. in 2009, when i first came to the department of the interior, not a single solar energy project had been approved for construction on the public lands of the american people. offshore, it had been a disaster from day one. languishing for eight years in a process that seem to have no end. since 2009, we moved in a new direction, it achieving results. we have authorized a 29 geothermal projects on lands. i have been there and seen these projects rising out of the desert. they will make believers out of the skeptics. when these are built, it will provide over 6

and we are working to deploy a new system for processing drilling permits on blm lands. we expect to reduce permitting times by two-thirds. we expect to reduce permitting times by two-thirds. now, this is a common theme there is a common theme in all this to all of us, and that is tackling a problem head on, getting it done right and then moving on to the next challenge. because we know there are other challenges ahead. so offshore ocean energy development in the united states, onshore and the many reforms that we have brought into place. and the last area where we have spent a very significant amount of time is in the renewable energy world. as of early 2009 when i first came to the department of the interior on the 21st of january of that year not a single large-scale solar energy project had been approved for construction on the public lands of the american people. offshore cape wind had been a process disaster from day one, languishing for eight long years in if a process that seemed to have no end. since 2009, however, we have moved in a new direction achieving resu