Notice2024-31574
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the Rio Puerco Field Office in Albuquerque, NM
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Published
January 3, 2025
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Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Approved Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Rio Puerco Field Office located in central and northwestern New Mexico. The BLM Director signed the ROD on December 23, 2024, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 333-334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31574]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[PO #4820000251]
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved
Resource Management Plan for the Rio Puerco Field Office in
Albuquerque, NM
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability
of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Approved Resource Management
Plan (RMP) for the Rio Puerco Field Office located in central and
northwestern New Mexico. The BLM Director signed the ROD on December
23, 2024, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the
Approved RMP effective immediately.
DATES: The BLM Director signed the ROD on December 23, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP is available online at <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/64954/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/64954/510</a>. Printed copies of the
ROD/Approved RMP are available for public inspection at Rio Puerco
Field Office, 100 Sun Avenue, Suite 330, Albuquerque, NM 87109, or can
be provided upon request by contacting BLM Planning Coordinator Matt
Caire at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d9b4bab8b0abbc99bbb5b4f7beb6af"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="92fff1f3fbe0f7d2f0feffbcf5fde4">[email protected]</span></a>.
A copy of the Protest Resolution Report is available at: <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports">https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: BLM Planning Coordinator Matt Caire,
telephone: 505-761-8918; address: 100 Sun Avenue, Suite 330,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6dbd5d7dfc4d3f6d4dadb98d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="771a14161e051237151b1a59101801">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals in
the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services for contacting Mr. Caire. Individuals
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within
their country to make
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international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Approved RMP/ROD replaces the current
Rio Puerco RMP (approved in 1986 and amended in 1992). The Rio Puerco
Field Office administers approximately 731,600 acres of surface estate
and approximately 3.6 million acres of subsurface mineral estate known
as the decision area. These lands are within the Rio Puerco planning
area and encompass Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, Torrance,
and Valencia counties in central and northwestern New Mexico. The Rio
Puerco planning area includes approximately 9.5 million acres, and
within this area there are a mix of lands that are unaffected by this
plan, such as national forest, national monument, Tribal land, State
land, and private land. The planning area also includes valuable
mineral resources and the largest population center in the State of New
Mexico.
The Approved RMP balances resource use and conservation, and
addresses land-tenure adjustments, land-use authorizations, recreation,
areas with special designations, lands with wilderness characteristics,
livestock grazing, transportation access, renewable energy, visual
resources, wildland/urban interface, and mineral resources.
The Approved RMP was deveopled through a collaborative planning
effort and describes the management actions that will be applied to
meet desired resource conditions. The Proposed RMP was carried forward
into the Approved RMP with minor modifications. Notably, this includes
acknowledgement of the ancestral lands of all affiliated Tribal Nations
within the planning area and emphasis on management direction for
cultural consultation and continual coordination with Tribal Nations.
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP/Final Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on August 9, 2024, for a 30-day protest period and
received 24 protest letters. The BLM resolved all protests. Responses
to protest issues are compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution
Report (see ADDRESSES). The BLM entered into a protest resolution
agreement with the Pueblo of San Felipe to address protest comments
raised during the protest period. Changes made to the Approved RMP as a
result of protest resolution are summarized in the Approved RMP ROD.
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP/Final EIS to the Governor of New
Mexico for a 60-day Governor's consistency review. No inconsistencies
with State plans, policies, or programs were identified during the
Governor's consistency review of the RMP.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 43 CFR 1610.5-1)
Melanie G. Barnes,
New Mexico State Director.
[FR Doc. 2024-31574 Filed 1-2-25; 8:45 am]
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