“William Perry Pendley will serve for at least another month as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, despite activist groups warning Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to expect a lawsuit should he extend Pendley’s assignment running the agency.
Last week Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Western Watershed Projects notified Bernhardt that they plan to file a lawsuit if he further extends Pendley’s status as acting director of the BLM, as well as David Vela’s status as acting director of the National Park Service. They say Bernhardt’s action violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.”
