Bears Ears boundary will be revisited

An order for a review of national monument boundaries, including the Bears Ears National Monument, is underway at the US Department of Interior.
The review is part of a secretarial order from new Trump administration appointee for the department of the interior secretary Doug Burgum. 
The order, released February 3, is entitled ‘Unleashing American Energy’.
The order directs the “removal of impediments imposed on the development and use of our Nation’s abundant energy and natural resources by the Biden administration’s burdensome regulations.”
The order gives assistant secretaries 15 days from February 3 to review and submit an action plan.
Among the directives for assistant secretaries include “actions to review and, as appropriate, revise all withdrawn public lands, consistent with existing law,”
The review will likely consider the size of Bears Ears National Monument, energy extraction such as mining is not allowed within monument designations.
The monument was originally designated as a 1.35 million-acre monument designated by President Barack Obama in 2016. In 2017 President Donal Trump reduced the monument’s size by 85-percent.
In 2021 President Joseph Biden re-designated the monument at 1.36 million acres.
A resource management plan for the monument was recently finalized after a multi-year process.