Notice2025-00079
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the Rock Springs Field Office, Wyoming
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Published
January 7, 2025
Issuing agencies
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) Amendment for the Rock Springs Field Office located in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The BLM Principal Deputy Director signed the ROD on December 20, 2024, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00079]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[PO4820000251]
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved
Resource Management Plan for the Rock Springs Field Office, Wyoming
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) Amendment for the Rock Springs Field Office located in Rock
Springs, Wyoming. The BLM Principal Deputy Director signed the ROD on
December 20, 2024, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes
the Approved RMP effective immediately.
DATES: The BLM Principal Deputy Director signed the ROD/Approved RMP
Amendment on December 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP is available online at the RMP
ePlanning website: <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/13853/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/13853/510</a>. Printed copies of the ROD/Approved RMP are available for
public inspection at the Rock Springs Field Office (RSFO) or can be
provided upon request by contacting Kimberlee Foster, Field Manager,
telephone (307) 352-0201; or at the address BLM Rock Springs Field
Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ee8588819d9a8b9cae8c8283c0898198"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ff4f9f0ecebfaeddffdf3f2b1f8f0e9">[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: Kimberlee Foster, Field Manager,
telephone 307-352-0201; address 280 Hwy. 191 N, Rock Springs, WY 82901;
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#37757b7a68606e686558545c6447455e595044657a6777555b5a19505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6f4fafbe9e1efe9e4d9d5dde5c6c4dfd8d1c5e4fbe6f6d4dadb98d1d9c0">[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 the individual listed above. Individuals
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within
their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in
the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The planning area is located in portions of
Lincoln, Sweetwater, Uinta, Sublette, and Fremont counties in
southwestern Wyoming, and encompasses approximately 3.6 million acres
of public land.
Resources on lands administered by the BLM within the planning area
are currently managed under the Green River RMP (1997) and Jack Morrow
Hills Coordinated Activity Plan (CAP) (2006), as amended. The purpose
of the Rock Springs RMP revision is to provide an updated,
comprehensive, and environmentally adequate framework for managing and
allocating uses of public lands and resources administered by the BLM
in the RSFO. The Rock Springs RMP EIS evaluated a variety of resource
conflicts and considered uses such as energy and minerals development,
renewable energy, transmission infrastructure, lands and realty
actions, and livestock grazing/rangeland management, as well as
resource protections for cultural and historic resources and wildlife
habitat.
The BLM published a notice of availability for the Draft EIS and
RMP in the Federal Register on August 17, 2023, which initiated a 152-
day comment period (88 FR 56654). During the public comment period, the
BLM received more than 35,000 unique written submissions containing
approximately 4000 substantive comments. The Draft EIS comments helped
the BLM refine the Final EIS and guided the development of the Proposed
RMP.
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP for public protest on August 23,
2024 (89 FR 68187), for a 30-day protest period, and received 27
letters that contained valid protests. The BLM Assistant Director for
Resources and Planning resolved all protests. Responses to protest
issues were compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution Report (see
ADDRESSES). No changes were made to the Approved RMP as a result of
protest resolution.
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP to the Governor of Wyoming for a
60-day Governor's consistency review. The State Director made no
changes to the Proposed RMP as a result of the Governor's review. On
December 13, 2024, the Governor submitted an appeal to the BLM on the
State Director's response to the Governor's consistency review. In
accordance with planning regulations (1610.3-2), the BLM notified the
Governor on December 20, 2024, of the reasons for the determination to
reject the Governor's recommendations.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 43 CFR 1610.5-1)
Andrew Archuleta,
BLM State Director.
[FR Doc. 2025-00079 Filed 1-6-25; 8:45 am]
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