Administrative action challenging BLM's decision to lease rights to explore and develop geothermal energy facilities at Glass Buttes, seeking to ensure that BLM properly considers citizen-inventoried and -proposed Wilderness Study Areas within the project area.

July 9, '09 - IBLA denies administrative appeal.

Feb 27, '09 - ONDA files statement of reasons in support of administrative appeal.

Jan. 9, '09 - ONDA appeals BLM's geothermal lease sale decision for the Glass Buttes area.

Project also overlaps geographically with BLM's decisions to issue rights-of-way for wind energy testing in the Little Glass Buttes and Round Top Butte areas.