Oklahoma, Kansas, & Texas 

Joint Environmental Impact Statement / 

BLM Resource Management Plan and BIA 

Integrated Resource Management Plan 

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BLM Oklahoma Field Office 

BIA Eastern Oklahoma Region 

BIA Southern Plains Region 

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What is an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS)? 

 A detailed report identifying effects on the 

human environment resulting from decisions 

and actions of the Federal government. 

 A requirement under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
 

 The purpose of NEPA is to help make 

informed decisions while concurrently 

protecting the environment. 

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What is a BLM Resource 

Management Plan? 

 The primary tool guiding BLM management activities 

in support of the dual mandate of multiple use and 

sustained yield. 

 Establishes goals and objectives for resource 

management and the measures needed to achieve 

them. 

 Identifies lands that are open and available for 

certain uses, including any restrictions, and lands 

that are closed to certain uses. 

 Provides comprehensive management direction for 

and/or allocates use of resources. 

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What is a BIA Integrated 

Resource Management Plan? 

 A strategic plan for the comprehensive management 

of its land-based resources 

 It provides a sound basis for the management of 

BIA-administered lands 

 It ties the natural environment together with a 

tribe's social values. 

 Integrated RMPs are often developed for individual 

tribes but can be developed for all BIAadministered lands 

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Why Are BLM and BIA 

Conducting this joint effort? 

 The RMP and Integrated RMP will enable 

BLM and BIA to better manage resource use 

decisions within the planning area. 

 BLM and BIA work collectively on permitting 

of Indian & Tribal mineral development. 

 Resources 

include: 

Oil & Gas 

Solid Minerals 

Lands 

 Resource Uses 

Include: 

Recreation 

Livestock grazing 

Other uses 

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Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP 

Purpose and Need 

BLM 

 To revise outdated plans: 

 Kansas 1991 RMP 

 Oklahoma 1994 RMP 

 Texas 1996 RMP 

 OK RMP Amendments 

 2004, 1996, 1994, 2014 

 TX RMP Amendment, 2000 

 To support future leasing and 

permitting decisions 

 To include/update resource uses 

and incorporate new data 

 To allocate other resources not 

included in original RMPs 

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 Leasing and development of 

Indian mineral interests will be 

strengthened when addressed in 

an EIS-level analysis 

 BIA EO & SP would sign separate 

Records of Decision 

 Strengthens future leasing by BIA 

or individual Tribes 

 Through tiering, strengthens 

permitting by BLM for Indian and 

Tribal mineral development 

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Decision Area 

BLM 

 4,821,200 acres of BLMadministered federal 

mineral estate. 

This includes: 

 46,900 acres of BLMadministered surface lands 

(excluding unsurveyed RR 

lands) 

 Other agencies’ minerals that 

the BLM administers 

 Split estate land (private land 

with federal mineral interests) 

Segregated Coal 

BIA 

 853,000 acres of BIAadministered Tribal and 

allotted surface lands 

 2,646,400 acres of BIAadministered Tribal and 

allotted subsurface minerals 

estate 

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Oklahoma
 

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Kansas
 

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What decisions will be made in 

the BLM RMP and BIA IRMP? 

 Land use plan decisions are broad-scale multiple use 

decisions that will guide future management actions. 

 They establish goals & objectives for resource 

management. 

 Decisions identify lands and minerals that are open, 

open with restrictions or closed for certain uses. 

 Provide comprehensive management direction for and 

allocate use of resources. 

 Implementation planning is tiered to the RMP/IRMP 

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BLM land Use Planning Process, 

modified from 

Handbook H-1601-1 

Prepare to Plan 

write a preparation plan 

Issue NOI to Prepare the 

RMP(amendment)/EIS 

Conduct Scoping 

Provide a minimum 30-day comment period on 

issues and planning criteria and document results in a 

scoping report 

Chapter 1 Purpose and Need and 

Chapter 3 Affected Environment 

Chapter 2: Formulate Alternatives 

No action alternative = current management 

New alternatives developed from need for change in AMS 

New alternatives developed from scoping and 

socioeconomic workshops 

Field/district office review, State office review, 

Washington office review 

Analyze the 

Management 

Situation
 

Document results 

of analysis in an 

analysis of the 

management 

situation 

Need for change 

topics help 

formulate 

alternatives 

Socioeconomic 

Workshops/
 

Report
 

Special 

Studies
 

Tribal Consultation
 

BLM land Use Planning Process, 

modified from 

Handbook H-1601-1 

Analyze Effect of Alternatives 

Develop indicators, preform GIS intersects, evaluate 

matrix of alternatives 

Select a Preferred Alternative 

Draft 

Biological 

Assessment 

Final 

Biological 

Assessment/ 

Biological 

Opinion 

Prepare a Draft RMP(amendment)EIS 

Field/district office review, State office review, 

Washington office/Solicitor review 

Publish NOA, Draft 

RMP(amendment) Draft EIS and 

Provide a Public Comment Period 

Prepare a Proposed RMP(amendment)/Final EIS 

Field/district office review, State office review, 

Washington office/Solicitor review 

Publish NOA, Proposed RMP/Final 

EIS and Provide Protest Period and 

Resolve Protests 

Provide a Governor’s 

Consistency Review Period 

Prepare Record of Decision (ROD)/Approval 

Implement, Monitor, and Evaluate Plan Decisions 

Tribal Consultation
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Update on the BLM RMP and BIA 

Integrated RMP Process 

 AMS 

 Scoping 

 Socioeconomic Assessment 

 Special Studies 

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Analysis of the Management 

Situation 

BLM H-1601-1 Appendix F-3: 

“The analysis of the management situation (!MS) 

should describe the current conditions and trends 

of the resources and uses/activities in the planning 

area in sufficient detail to create a framework from 

which to resolve the planning issues through the 

development of alternatives. This analysis should 

be short, concise and focused on the issues 

relevant to resource management in the area. It 

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should not be an exhaustive review of everything 

known about the area.” 

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Public & Tribal Scoping
 

 Formal public scoping period: July 26, 2013 to 

January 31, 2014 

 BLM and BIA hosted 17 public meetings Nov 2013 

to Jan 2014 

 172 total attendees 

 683 Comments Received 

 85.9 % contained planning issues that will be 

addressed in the Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP

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Planning Issues
 

Planning Issue Categories
 

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 Energy Development 

 Minerals and mining 

 Cultural and historic 

resources 

 Fences and trespassing 

 Recreation and other uses 

along the Red River 

 Access and transportation 

 Public health and safety 

 Lands and realty 

 Fish and wildlife 

 Socioeconomics 

 Tribal Interests 

 Issues not addressed in 

previous RMPs 

 Climate change and future 

water needs 

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Issue Statements
 

 Minerals and mining 

 How can the BLM and BIA allow 

development of federal and tribal coal 

resources and honor valid existing lease 

rights, while protecting air, water, and 

the natural environment? 

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Socioeconomic Assessment 

 Baseline Data was collected for counties 

that are within or overlap the Decision 

Area 

 Socioeconomic workshops were 

conducted from January-February 2015. 

Five workshops were held and 67 local 

government/tribal representatives 

attended the workshops. 

 Socioeconomic Report has been finalized
 

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Objectives of the Socioeconomic 

Report 

 Compile and document the socioeconomic conditions of 

the planning area; 

 Summarize the results of socioeconomic workshops held 

by the BLM and BIA in local communities in early 2015; 

 Assess the relationship between the management of 

BLM and BIA-administered lands and local communities 

at both the local and District Office levels; 

 Document input from communities on how management 

could be revised; and 

 Outline methods to be used in the RMP/IRMP process 

for assessing potential impacts on social and economic 

conditions. 

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Government-to-Government 

Consultation 

 Previous Tribal Consultation Meetings 

 October 28th, 2013 in Muskogee, OK 

 October 30th, 2013 in Anadarko, OK 

 January 14th, 2015 in Norman, OK 

 January 15th, 2015 in Muskogee, OK 

 This consultation will continue throughout 

the Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP process 

to ensure that the concerns of tribal groups 

are considered as the Joint EIS/BLM RMP and 

BIA IRMP is developed. 

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Next Steps  Data collection, 

document current 

condition 

 Finalize special 

studies (cultural, 

hydro assess, etc.) 

 Finalize alternatives  Publish a Draft EIS/ 

BLM RMP and 

BIA Integrated RMP 

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Joint EIS/BLM RMP Schedule 

 Special Studies: Summer/Fall 2015
 

 Alternatives Development: Summer/Fall 2015
 

 Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP: Summer 2016
 

 Final Joint EIS/BLM RMP: Summer 2017
 

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Questions? 

Project Web site: 

http://www.blm.gov/nm/oktrmp 

Project E-mail Address: 

BLM_NM_OKT_RMP@blm.gov 

Laurence Levesque 

BLM, Oklahoma Field Office 

7906 E. 33rd, Suite 101 

Tulsa, OK 74145 

918-621-4136 

David Anderson 

BIA, Southern Plains Regional Office 

Anadarko, OK 73005 

405-247-1532 

Steve Tryon 

BLM, Oklahoma Field Office 

7906 E. 33rd, Suite 101 

Tulsa, OK 74145 

(918) 621-4102 

Sierra Mandelko 

BIA, Eastern Oklahoma Region 

3100 W. Peak Boulevard 

Muskogee, OK 74401 

918-781-4660 

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