TY - DATA AB - A GIS layer of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) that are within public lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The GIS layers were used by BLM in the nationwide Geothermal Resources Leasing Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). Some of the lands are closed to leasing for geothermal projects. The GIS layer contains .SBX, .XML, .SHX, .DBF (.XLS), .PRJ, .SBN, and .SHP data. Disclaimer from BLM: This layer contains all ACECs, but not all of these lands are closed to geothermal leasing. See Appendix C of the PEIS for a list of ACECs and whether or not they are open or closed. Open/closed information in Appendix C is not available for AZ, CA, CO, MT, UT, or WA. ### License Info Made open by BLM http://www.doi.gov/privacy.cfm AU - Hill, Graham AU - (BLM), U.S. Bureau of Land Management DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - KW - ACEC KW - BLM KW - GIS KW - PEIS LA - English DA - 2014/07/29 PY - 2014 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory T1 - Closed BLM public lands: Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/ ER -