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The Anchorage Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing the Bering
Sea–Western Interior (BSWI) Resource Management Plan (RMP) to provide a comprehensive
framework for managing and allocating uses of public lands and resources in the central
southwestern portion of the State of Alaska. The BSWI Planning Area encompasses nearly 60
million acres, with 13 percent of those lands managed by the BLM. An analysis of the locatable
and salable mineral potential within the BSWI Planning Area was completed as part of this
study. The main objective was to delineate areas with high potential for the development of
locatable and salable minerals.