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Stop permanent sale of 20 public acres in Socorro County
Bureau of Land Management · Socorro County Recreation & Public Purposes Patent 30-66-0141, BLM Socorro Field Office lands
- What
- BLM plans to permanently hand 20 acres of public New Mexico land to Socorro County for a stormwater pond.
- Where
- Socorro County Recreation & Public Purposes Patent 30-66-0141, BLM Socorro Field Office lands, Highway 380 corridor parcel
- How much
- Twenty acres of public land near Socorro, New Mexico would be permanently removed from public ownership.
- Decided
- Comments closed; deadline not stated by the agency. No decision document is on file yet.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-NM-A020-2025-0021-RMP-EA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedWe haven’t found where this fight’s close date came from, so the card shows no date. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
Timothy R. Spisak
State Director
A person signed this, not an agency. The window has closed and the signature stands, which is exactly when accountability matters.
Short is better. You are asking State Director Spisak to answer for a decision their office made.
My name is [your name] and I'm calling from [your city and state]. Timothy R. Spisak, State Director, signed the decision on Stop permanent sale of 20 public acres in Socorro County. I'm asking that office to answer for it publicly. Please record that I called and tell me what the office intends to do.
Official channels only, about this decision. No personal phone numbers, no home addresses, no personal social accounts, and nothing abusive. The point is to make the office answer, and an abusive call is the one thing that lets it off the hook.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
BLM plans to permanently hand 20 acres of public New Mexico land to Socorro County for a stormwater pond.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
The County of Socorro is requesting a direct land sale for a 10-acre parcel of land adjacent to an existing Socorro County Recreation & Public Purposes (R&PP) Patent (30-66-0141). The County is planning on constructing a detention pond on this adjacent parcel. In addition, a portion of the original R&PP patent would be part of the design and construction for the detention pond. Therefore, the reversionary interest on a 10-acre portion of the original R&PP patent is being considered as part of the direct land sale. The total direct land sale would be for 20 acres. The parcel is located approximately 10 miles south…
Who signs it
Timothy R. Spisak
State Director
Where the notice says so
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.
Who holds the vote
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