Notice2025-00954
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon/Washington and California
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Published
January 17, 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 Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM) located in Oregon/Washington (OR/WA) and California (CA). The Director signed the ROD on January 7, 2025, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5984-5985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00954]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved
Resource Management Plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in
Oregon/Washington and California
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.
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 Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM) located in
Oregon/Washington (OR/WA) and California (CA). The Director signed the
ROD on January 7, 2025, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and
makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.
DATES: The Director signed the ROD on January 7, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP is available online at <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2023675/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2023675/510</a>. Printed copies of
the ROD/Approved RMP are available for public inspection at the BLM
Medford District Office, 3040 Biddle Rd, Medford, OR 97504; the BLM
Klamath Falls Field Office, 2795 Anderson Avenue, Bldg. #25, Klamath
Falls, OR 97603; the Redding Field Office, 6640 Lockheed Drive,
Redding, CA 96002-9003; or can be provided upon request by contacting
Lauren Brown, Field Manager, Ashland Field Office, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#25495547574a524b654749480b424a53"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7f130f1d0d1008113f1d131251181009">[email protected]</span></a> or
(541) 618-2200, or by contacting Joel Brumm, Assistant Monument
Manager, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e646c7c7b63634e6c626320696178"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="85efe7f7f0e8e8c5e7e9e8abe2eaf3">[email protected]</span></a> or (541) 618-2200.
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: Ms. Lauren Brown, Ashland Field
Office, Field Manager, telephone (541) 618-2200; address 3040 Biddle
Rd, Medford, OR 97504; email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2a48464775495944477558475a6a484647044d455c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1a78767745796974774568776a5a787677347d756c">[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 Ms. Brown. 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 CSNM boundary, as identified by
Presidential Proclamation Nos. 7318 and 9564, constitutes the planning
area for the Approved RMP. The planning area is 170,407 acres and
includes lands within Jackson and Klamath Counties in Oregon, and
Siskiyou County in California. The CSNM's decision area is the
approximately 113,500 acres of BLM-administered lands within the
planning area. While most of the BLM-administered lands are within the
BLM Ashland and Klamath Falls Field Offices in Oregon, approximately
5,000 acres are located within the BLM Redding Field Office in
California.
The Approved RMP will ensure that all legal mandates related to
management of the congressionally designated National Conservation
Lands (i.e., Soda Mountain Wilderness; the Jenny Creek and Spring Creek
Wild and Scenic Rivers; the Applegate Trail, which is part of the
California National Historic Trail; and the Pacific Crest National
Scenic Trail), as well as lands included in President Obama's
enlargement of the monument boundary, are fully addressed. In addition,
the Approved RMP will update existing management plans to align with
current BLM policies, thereby ensuring comprehensive management of the
decision area.
The RMP's underlying purpose (40 CFR 1502.13) is to provide a
management framework, including objectives and management direction,
that guides the BLM's management of the decision area to protect and
restore the resources, objects, and values for which the area was
designated.
The Approved RMP emphasizes flexibility in planning-level direction
but promotes a moderate level of active management for protection,
maintenance, and restoration of CSNM resources, and sets some
limitations on management actions and tools available. The Approved RMP
does not carry forward any Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
(ACEC) or Research Natural Areas. The BLM determined that special
management attention would be provided by management direction in the
plan from other designations and management areas that apply monument-
wide and would adequately protect the resource or value. The BLM
determined that the entire monument holds historic, cultural, fish and
wildlife, and scenic values that meet the relevance and importance
criteria for an ACEC. The Approved RMP is designed to protect the
monument's objects of scientific and historic interest outlined in
Presidential Proclamations Nos. 7318 and 9564, which would safeguard
these resources or values.
In developing the Approved RMP, the analysis in the Proposed RMP/
Final EIS demonstrated that it best meets the purpose and need for the
action compared to the alternatives. The planning process included
results from close collaboration with several agency partners,
including regulatory agencies and Tribal Nations, and their support
will be integral to effectively implementing the Approved RMP.
The BLM provided the Proposed RMP/Final EIS for public protest on
October 11, 2024, for a 30-day protest period and received 11 protest
letters.
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The BLM resolved all protests. Responses to protest issues will be
compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution Report (see ADDRESSES).
No changes to the Cascade-Siskiyou Resource Management Plan Proposed
RMP/EIS were necessary as a result of protests.
Additionally, the BLM provided the Proposed RMP/Final EIS to the
Governors of Oregon and California for a 30-day Governor's consistency
review. The OR and CA Governor's office identified what they considered
inconsistencies, and the BLM issued response letters that outlined
explanations and justifications for how the BLM's proposed plan remains
consistent with the concerns raised. No changes to the Cascade-Siskiyou
National Monument Proposed RMP/EIS were necessary as a result of the
Governors' consistency review.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.9, 40 CFR 1506.9, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR
1610.5)
Sharif Branham,
Assistant Director for Resources and Planning.
[FR Doc. 2025-00954 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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