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