 The second is it elevates something called an ACEC to the point where basically you could have ENGOs that are able to indefinitely take land offline. Cushman said the new BLM rule violates government policy already in place. The key argument is that this rule violates FLIPMA, otherwise known as the Federal Land Policy Management Act. FLIPMA requires BLM to manage lands under the multiple-use methodology, and this new rule does not do that.