Reppy v. Department of the Interior of the United States

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff William Reppy appeals the district court’s affirmance of a decision by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) rejecting Reppy’s challenge to a denial of his oil and gas lease application for failure to comply with an administrative regulation. We affirm.1

Reppy was the successful drawee of an oil and gas lease in a random computer drawing conducted by the Wyoming State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pursuant to an established leasing program. Reppy’s lease application subsequently was rejected by the BLM, however, for failure to disclose, as…