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Indian Energy Service Center; Receipt of Tribal Energy Resource Agreement for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado

Bureau of Indian Affairs· Southern Ute Reservation, ColoradoFederal Register 2026-03309 ↗

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4 groups work Colorado

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  • Center for Biological Diversity

    Works Colorado: led the coalition suit against the Uinta Basin Railway, whose oil trains would run the river corridors below the monument.

  • Rocky Mountain Wild

    Works Colorado: joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.

  • San Juan Citizens Alliance

    Works Colorado: shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM..

  • WildEarth Guardians

    Works Colorado: named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

The Department of the Interior has received a proposed Tribal Energy Resource Agreement (TERA) from the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in Colorado. If approved, it'll allow the Tribe to independently enter into energy leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way on their own lands without needing the Secretary of the Interior's sign-off on each deal. This affects tribal lands within the Southern Ute Reservation and shifts decision-making authority directly to the Tribe.

In the agency’s own words

This notice advises the public that the Department of the Interior (DOI) received a final proposed Tribal Energy Resource Agreement (TERA) for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado (Tribe) to enter into energy-related leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way on Tribal lands, at the Tribe's discretion and without further Secretary's review and approval.

Federal Register 2026-03309 ↗

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