Instruction Memorandum

Bureau of Land Management instruction memorandum are directives that supplement the BLM manual sections and handbooks. Instruction memoranda or IMs contain new policy or procedures that must reach BLM employees quickly, interpret existing policies or provide one-time instructions.

The BLM publishes two types of IMs: permanent and temporary.

  • Permanent IMs provide lasting guidance that is short in scope. Permanent IMs remain in effect until superseded or deleted.   
  • Temporary IMs offer operational, incident-specific, project-related or one-time policy or guidance for evolving activities. Temporary IMs expire at the end of the third fiscal year following issuance.

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Policies

Fiscal Year: 2012

National Office

IM 2012-191 - Oil and Gas Field Managers Training Requirements
IM 2012-189 - Nomination of Proposed National Water Trails
IM 2012-182 - Collection of Meteorites on Public Land
IM 2012-181 - Idle Well Review and Data Entry into the Automated Fluid Minerals Support System
IM 2012-179 - Review of Draft Recreation Permit and Fee Administration Handbook
IM 2012-178 - Policy When to Increase the Scope of Benefiting Activity and Reimbursable Cadastral Surveys and How to Fund Expanded Surveys
IM 2012-169 - Resource Management Plan Alternative Development for Livestock Grazing
IM 2012-168 - LR2000 Data Standards and eTrans Data Entry for High-Voltage Transmission Line Rights-of-Way Cases
IM 2012-163 - Fiscal Year 2012 End-of-Year Recreation Management Information System Data Call
IM 2012-162 - Certified Federal Surveyor Program Admission Standards Revision
IM 2012-161 - Oversight of the Oil and Gas Inspection and Enforcement Program
IM 2012-158 - BLM Junior Explorer Program: Production of Activity Books and Program Implementation
IM 2012-156 - Statutory Filing Deadlines Extended
IM 2012-153 - Standardization of Bureau Timber Sale Contract Numbering
IM 2012-151 - National Lands Training for Line Officers and Program Managers Course, 2000-23 Nomination Registration
IM 2012-141 - Confidentiality of Paleontological Locality Information Under the Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009, Title VI, Subtitle D on Paleontological Resources Preservation
IM 2012-140 - Collecting Paleontological Resources Under the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009
IM 2012-135 - Facility Compliance Management and Tracking of Compliance Assessment- Safety, Health and the Environment (CASHE) Findings
IM 2012-133 - Availability of Bureau of Land Management Forms 4130-1, 4130-1a, 4130-1b, 4130-3a, 4130-4, 4130-5
IM 2012-126 - 2013-2015 Inventory of Cadastral Survey Service Needs
IM 2012-124 - Implementation of Land Health Reporting Data Standard: A New Standardized System for Reporting and Mapping Achievements in Land Health
IM 2012-115 - Release of A Desk Guide to Cooperating Agency Relationships and Coordination with Intergovernmental Partners
IM 2012-113 - Bureau New Media and Social Networking Policy
IM 2012-111 - National Monument and National Conservation Area FY 2011 Reports
IM 2012-110 - Rescinding Washington Office Instruction Memorandum 2010-118, Energy Policy Act Section 390 Categorical Exclusion Policy Revision