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On August 20, 2026, the NAM will file an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review and reversal of a lower court finding that a land exchange between an Idaho-based manufacturer and the federal government violated federal law. In this case, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation v. Dep’t of the Interior, the manufacturer acquired federal land in Idaho from the Bureau of Land Management to build new gypstacks containing waste products from fertilizer in exchange for plots of the manufacturer’s land. Nevertheless, the trial court agreed with a local tribe that the exchange was precluded by a 1900 law that restricted the potential uses of exchanged federal land. The 9th Circuit affirmed. The manufacturer has now asked the Supreme Court to correct these erroneous findings. In support of the manufacturer’s cert petition, our amicus brief underscores that the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act is a comprehensive land management statute that must be read to allow for all federal land dispositions in order to satisfy business expectations and foster resource development on public lands in the United States.