Notice2025-00364
Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico
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Published
January 13, 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) for the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument (Monument) located in Do[ntilde]a Ana County, New Mexico. The BLM New Mexico State Director signed the ROD on January 8, 2025, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2739-2740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00364]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[PO #4820000251]
Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico
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 Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
(Monument) located in Do[ntilde]a Ana County, New Mexico. The BLM New
Mexico State Director signed the ROD on January 8, 2025, which
constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP
effective immediately.
DATES: The New Mexico State Director signed the ROD on January 8, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP are available online at: <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/92170/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/92170/510</a>. Printed copies of the
ROD/Approved RMP are available for public inspection at the BLM Las
Cruces District Office, 1800 Marquess Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico
88005, telephone: (575) 525-4464, or can be provided upon request by
contacting Monument Manager Lane Hauser, BLM Las Cruces District
Office; telephone: (575) 525-4464, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fc90949d898f998ebc9e9091d29b938a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="670b0f061214021527050b0a49000811">[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: Monument Manager Lane Hauser, BLM Las
Cruces District Office; telephone: (575) 525-4464; address: 1800
Marquess Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#066a6e677375637446646a6b28616970"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6b07030a1e180e192b090706450c041d">[email protected]</span></a>.
Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or Tele
Braille) to access telecommunications relay services for contacting Mr.
Lane Houser. 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 Approved RMP replaces previous land use
management guidance found in the 1993 Mimbres RMP, as amended, for all
Monument objects, lands, resources, resource values, and wildlife
habitat. The Approved RMP provides long-term management for
approximately 496,330-acres of BLM-administered public lands in
Do[ntilde]a Ana County, New Mexico. In accordance with Presidential
Proclamation 9131 (79 FR 30431); Section 2 of the Antiquities Act of
1906 (Pub. L. 59-206); the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation,
Management, and Recreation Act of 2019 (Pub. L. 116-9) (Dingell Act);
and the Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Approved
RMP employs protection, preservation, and conservation principles as a
management framework to administer the Monument while providing the
public with opportunities to observe, study, and enjoy Monument lands.
The Approved RMP identifies land use allocations and resource
management goals, objectives, and direction for the protection of
objects of scientific and historic interest, preservation of wilderness
character, and conservation of natural and cultural resources, resource
values, and wildlife habitat.
The Approved RMP is consistent with appropriate laws, regulations,
executive orders and proclamations, and agency policy, including, but
not limited to, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the
National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and
section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Through the
planning process, the BLM considered reasonably foreseeable impacts
associated with the land use allocations and resource management
decisions. The BLM assessed five alternatives in the Draft and Final
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and selected Alternative E as the
Proposed RMP, now Approved RMP.
In order to meet the purpose and need of the planning effort and
the mandate of Presidential Proclamation 9131, the BLM developed
decisions of allowable and prohibited uses of public lands within the
Monument. As with all decisions in the Approved RMP, the BLM considered
input from Tribal Nations, cooperating State and Federal agencies, the
public, and the Office of the Governor of New Mexico.
All clarifications and modifications made between the publication
of the Proposed RMP and the Approved RMP are summarized in the ROD. One
update relates to the analysis of the social cost of greenhouse gases
in the Approved RMP. The Proposed RMP and the Final EIS relied on the
2021 Interagency Working Group estimates to calculate the social cost
of greenhouse gases. The ROD and Approved RMP adopt the 2023
Environmental Protection Agency calculations for analyzing the social
cost of greenhouse gases. The BLM also clarified the wilderness
management goals in the Approved RMP to be consistent with the
Wilderness Act. In addition, new management direction was added for the
development of a travel management plan. The specific language is
below:
<bullet> Goal: Subject to valid existing rights, exceptions or
special provisions specifically authorized by appropriate legal
authority, the BLM shall be responsible for preserving the Wilderness
character of the area and so administer such area for the purpose it
was designated by Congress. In doing so, the BLM shall not designate a
permanent or temporary road within a designated Wilderness area for
motorized vehicle use or mechanical transport, nor shall the BLM allow
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use of motorized equipment, motorboats, the landing of aircraft, or the
establishment of a structure or installation within any such area.
<bullet> Management Direction: The BLM shall develop a Travel and
Transportation Management Plan during implementation of this RMP that
incorporates guidance, direction, restrictions, exceptions, and special
provisions provided for in the 2019 John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,
Management and Recreation Act, as amended; the 2009 Omnibus Public Land
Management Act, as amended; the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976, as amended; the Wilderness Act of 1964, as amended; or other
applicable legal authorities, as appropriate.
These modifications do not constitute substantial changes from the
Proposed RMP to the Approved RMP.
The BLM provided announcement of the availability of the Proposed
RMP and Final EIS on October 11, 2024, (89 FR 82622) for a 30-day
public protest period and received seven protest letters. Upon careful
review of the issues identified in each of the seven protest letters,
the BLM Director resolved all protests. No changes to the ROD or
Approved RMP were necessary to address valid protests. Responses to
protest issues were compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution
Report (see ADDRESSES).
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP and Final EIS to the Governor of
New Mexico for a 60-day Governor's consistency review on October 11,
2024. The Office of the Governor of New Mexico did not identify any
concerns or potential inconsistencies between the Proposed RMP and
State and local plans, policies, and programs.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 43 CFR 1610.5-1)
Melanie G. Barnes,
BLM New Mexico State Director.
[FR Doc. 2025-00364 Filed 1-10-25; 8:45 am]
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