diff --git a/doc/source/lilac/obtaining-building-and-running/setting-ctsm-runtime-options.rst b/doc/source/lilac/obtaining-building-and-running/setting-ctsm-runtime-options.rst
index 79fd8d5eba..6391352bad 100644
--- a/doc/source/lilac/obtaining-building-and-running/setting-ctsm-runtime-options.rst
+++ b/doc/source/lilac/obtaining-building-and-running/setting-ctsm-runtime-options.rst
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ in this file.
 The first set of options in this file specifies key file names:
 
 - ``lnd_domain_file`` must be specified. This file specifies CTSM's grid and land
-  mask. The general process for creating this file is described in section
-  :numref:`building-the-clm-tools`.
+  mask.
 
 - ``fsurdat`` also must be specified. This file specifies a variety of spatially-varying
   properties. This file is grid-specific, but can be created from grid-independent files
diff --git a/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/building-the-clm-tools.rst b/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/building-the-clm-tools.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2093b410e6..0000000000
--- a/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/building-the-clm-tools.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-.. include:: ../substitutions.rst
-
-.. _building-the-clm-tools:
-
-========================
- Building the CLM tools
-========================
-
-The tool **cprnc** uses the CIME configure/build system which is described in the next section.
-
-The only CLM FORTRAN tool is mksurfdata_esmf which has it's own build system that takes advantage of the cime build.
-
-================================================================
- Building the CLM tools that use the CIME configure/build system
-================================================================
-
-``cprnc`` uses the CIME configure/build system rather than the CLM specific version described above.
-
-See `CIME documentation on adding grids <http://esmci.github.io/cime/users_guide/grids.html?highlight=gen_domain#adding-grids>`_ for more information on adding grids, creating mapping files, and running ``gen_domain``. Also see the CIME file: ``$CTSMROOT/tools/mapping/gen_domain_files/INSTALL`` for how to build ``gen_domain``.
-
diff --git a/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/index.rst b/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/index.rst
index 9dbd00fe32..53e904b6c4 100644
--- a/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/users_guide/using-clm-tools/index.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Using CLM tools
    :maxdepth: 2
 
    what-are-the-clm-tools.rst
-   building-the-clm-tools.rst
    using-ctsm-pylib.rst
    creating-input-for-surface-dataset-generation.rst
    creating-surface-datasets.rst