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appropriate civil and/or criminal 

proceedings. 

IV. Records To Be Matched 

HHS will conduct the matching of 

tenant SSNs and additional identifiers 

(such as surnames and dates of birth) to 

tenant data that HUD supplies from its 

Tenant Housing Assistance and Contract 

Verification Data (HUD/H–11) and 

Public and Indian Housing Information 

Center (HUD/PIH–4) Program 

administrators utilize the Form-50058 

module within the PIC system and the 

Form 50059 module within the TRACS 

to provide HUD with the tenant data. 

HHS will match the tenant records 

included in HUD/H–11 and HUD/PIH–

4 to NDNH records contained in HHS’s 

‘‘Location and Collection System of 

Records,’’ No. 09–90–0074. HUD will 

place matching data into its system of 

records known as the Tenant Eligibility 

Verification Files (HUD/REAC–1). 

The tenant records (one record for 

each family member) include these data 

elements: full name, Social Security 

Number, and date of birth. 

V. Period of the Match 

The computer matching program will 

be conducted according to agreements 

between HUD and HHS. The computer 

matching agreement for the planned 

match will terminate either when the 

purpose of the computer matching 

program is accomplished, or 18 months 

from the date the agreement is signed, 

whichever comes first. 

The agreements may be extended for 

one 12-month period, with the mutual 

agreement of all involved parties, if the 

following conditions are met: 

(1) Within 3 months of the expiration 

date, all Data Integrity Boards review 

the agreement, find that the program 

will be conducted without change, and 

find a continued favorable examination 

of benefit/cost results; and (2) All 

parties certify that the program has been 

conducted in compliance with the 

agreement. 

The agreement may be terminated, 

prior to accomplishment of the 

computer matching purpose or 18 

months from the date the agreement is 

signed (whichever comes first), by the 

mutual agreement of all involved parties 

within 30 days of written notice.

Dated: November 10, 2004. 

Carolyn H. Cockrell, 

Acting Chief Technology Officer.

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BILLING CODE 4210–72–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary 

Office of Planning and Performance 

Management; Agency Information 

Collection Activities: Submitted for 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension/renewal of 

information collection survey. 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are 

submitting to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for its review and 

approval a request to extend/renew an 

information collection titled, ‘‘DOI 

Programmatic Clearance for Customer 

Satisfaction Surveys,’’ OMB Control 

#1040–0001, originally approved by 

OMB in January 2002 and expiring 

January 31, 2005. We are also soliciting 

comments from the public regarding 

this request.

DATES: Please submit written comments 

by December 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

via fax or e-mail to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior (OMB 

Control Number 1040–0001). The fax 

number is (202) 395–6566; e-mail 

address is 

OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov.

Mail or hand-carry a copy of your 

comments to the Department of the 

Interior; Office of Planning and 

Performance Management; Attention: 

Sheri Harris; Mail Stop 5258; 1849 C 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240. If 

you wish to e-mail comments, the email address is sheri_harris@ios.doi.gov.

Reference ‘‘DOI Programmatic Clearance 

for Customer Satisfaction Surveys’’ in 

your e-mail subject line. Include your 

name and return address in your e-mail 

message and mark your message for 

return receipt.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sheri L. Harris, Office of Planning and 

Performance Management, telephone 

(202) 208–7342. You may also contact 

Mrs. Harris to obtain a copy, at no cost, 

of the collection of information 

statement submitted to OMB.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Extension/Renewal of DOI 

Programmatic Clearance for Customer 

Satisfaction Surveys. 

OMB Control Number: 1040–0001. 

Renewal/Extension. 

Abstract: DOI is requesting an 

extension/renewal of its 3-year 

programmatic clearance for customer 

satisfaction surveys, originally approved 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in January 2002 and 

expiring on January 31, 2005. The 

programmatic clearance enables Interior 

bureaus and offices to conduct customer 

research through external surveys such 

as questionnaires and comment cards. 

This information is being collected to 

improve the services and products that 

DOI provides to the public and thus 

better carry out part of its statutory 

mission. Information collected under 

the 3-year programmatic clearance has 

led to a number of improvements. For 

example, customer feedback has helped 

the Bureau of Land Management 

improve the timeliness of several of its 

permitting processes. A survey of 

visitors to Fish and Wildlife Refuges has 

identified key issues that will help 

improve visitor satisfaction. The data 

have also been used to help Interior 

assess organizational performance and 

accountability through GPRA strategic 

planning and performance 

measurement. DOI anticipates that the 

information obtained under a renewal of 

the programmatic clearance will 

continue to lead to revisions in certain 

agency processes and policies, 

development of guidance related to 

DOI’s customer services, and additional 

improvements in the way we serve the 

Nation.

From Whom Will Data Be Collected:

This proposal seeks to extend/renew an 

existing Programmatic Clearance for 

Customer Satisfaction Surveys that 

allows Interior and its organizational 

units to collect satisfaction information 

from its customers. Interior defines 

customers as anyone who uses DOI 

resources, products, or services. This 

includes internal customers (anyone 

within DOI) as well as external 

customers (e.g., the American public, 

representatives of the private sector, 

academia, and other government 

agencies). Depending upon their role in 

specific situations and interactions, 

citizens and DOI stakeholders and 

partners may also be considered 

customers. We define stakeholders to 

mean groups or individuals who have 

an expressed interest in and who seek 

to influence the present and future state 

of DOI’s resources, products, and 

services. Partners are defined as those 

groups, individuals, and agencies who 

are formally engaged in helping DOI 

accomplish its mission, or with whom 

DOI has a joint responsibility or 

mission. 

Rationale for Request for Renewal:

Interior will request extension/renewal 

of its Programmatic Clearance for 

Customer Satisfaction Surveys so that 

we may better fulfill our Department or 

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program-specific statutory missions as 

well as our government-wide 

responsibilities to provide excellence in 

government by proactively consulting 

with those we serve to identify 

opportunities to improve our 

information, services, and products. In 

addition, customer information is 

needed to meet requirements of the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) of 1993 (P.L. 103–62), the 

Administration’s Program Assessment 

Rating Tool (PART) recommendations, 

the President’s Management Agenda 

(PMA), and Interior’s Citizen-Centered 

Customer Service Policy. 

How Data Will Be Used: The GPRA 

requires agencies to ‘‘improve Federal 

program effectiveness and public 

accountability by promoting a new 

focus on results, service quality, and 

customer satisfaction’’ (Section 2.b.3). In 

order to fulfill this responsibility, DOI’s 

bureaus and offices must collect data 

from their respective user groups to (1) 

better understand the needs and desires 

of the public and (2) respond to those 

needs and desires accordingly. The 

renewal will provide us with the 

necessary authority to collect these data 

in the way that we do. 

Renewal of the Programmatic 

Clearance for Customer Satisfaction 

Information is also critical to the 

Department’s ability to collect data 

essential for assessing progress toward 

achieving the goals established in our 

GPRA Strategic Plan. That plan contains 

a number of performance measures that 

directly correspond to customer, 

partner, and stakeholder satisfaction 

with specific services of Interior and its 

bureaus and offices. To accurately 

report whether or not we met targets set 

for these performance measures, it is 

imperative for Interior’s bureaus and 

offices to collect data from those we 

serve. 

Interior’s Department-wide Customer 

and Citizen-Centered Service Policy 

admonishes its bureaus and offices to 

consult and communicate with 

customers to integrate their feedback 

into our programs and business 

processes in order to improve our 

service to them. It specifically asks 

Interior bureaus and offices to obtain 

customer satisfaction data on an annual 

basis and to use these data to implement 

programmatic improvements. The 

renewal of our Programmatic Clearance 

will assist these organizations in 

complying with the Departmental 

policy. 

Executive Order (E.O.) 12862 

(September 11, 1993), aimed at 

‘‘ensuring the Federal Government 

provides the highest quality service 

possible to the American people,’’

fortifies our mandate by the Secretary of 

the Interior and the Administration to 

provide ‘‘citizen-centered government.’’

The E.O. discusses surveys as a means 

for determining the kinds and qualities 

of service desired by the Federal 

Government’s customers and for 

determining satisfaction levels for 

existing service. These voluntary 

customer surveys will be used to 

ascertain customer satisfaction with 

DOI’s bureaus and offices in terms of 

services and products. Previous 

customer surveys have provided useful 

information to DOI’s bureaus and offices 

for assessing how well we deliver our 

services and products, making 

improvements, and reporting on GPRA 

performance goals. The results are used 

internally, and summaries are provided 

to the OMB on an annual basis and are 

used to satisfy the requirements and 

spirit of E.O. 12862. 

Which DOI Bureaus and Offices Are 

Covered by This Proposal: The proposed 

renewal/extension covers all of the 

organizational units and bureaus in DOI. 

It will enable participating DOI bureaus 

and offices to perform their customer 

surveys under one programmatic 

clearance. Under this proposed renewal/

extension, DOI will request that OMB 

review the procedures and questions for 

these surveys as a program. Under the 

procedures proposed here, DOI will 

conduct the necessary quality control, 

including assurances that the individual 

survey comports with the guidelines of 

the programmatic clearance, and submit 

the particular survey instrument and 

methodology for expedited review to 

OMB as we are ready to deploy a 

specific information collection. 

Types of Questions to be Asked: The 

participating bureaus and offices 

propose to obtain information 

voluntarily from their customers and 

stakeholders. No one survey will cover 

all the topic areas; rather, these topic 

areas serve as a guide within which the 

agencies will develop their questions. 

Questions may be asked in languages 

other than English, e.g., Spanish, where 

appropriate. 

We protect information submitted by 

respondents that is considered 

confidential or proprietary under the 

Freedom of Information Act and in 

accordance with Privacy Act regulations 

on protecting these data. Respondents 

are informed of this assurance on the 

survey forms or during the course of the 

survey interview. 

1. Communication/information/

education: The range of questions 

envisioned for this topic area will focus 

on customer satisfaction with aspects of 

communication/information/products/

education offered. Respondents may be 

asked for feedback regarding the 

following attributes of the service 

provided: 

• Timeliness. 

• Consistency. 

• Accuracy. 

• Ease of Use and Usefulness.

• Ease of Information Access. 

• Helpfulness and Effectiveness. 

• Quality. 

• Value for fee paid for information/

product/service. 

• Level of engagement in 

communications process (i.e., whether 

respondent feels he/she was asked for 

input and whether or not that input was 

considered). 

2. Disability accessibility: This area 

will focus on customer satisfaction data 

related to disability access to Interior 

buildings, facilities, trails, electronic 

information, etc.

3. Management practices: This area 

covers questions relating to how well 

customers are satisfied with Interior 

management practices and processes, 

what improvements they might make to 

specific processes, and whether or not 

they feel specific issues were addressed 

and reconciled in a timely, courteous, 

responsive manner. 

4. Resource management: Questions 

will ask customers and partners to 

provide satisfaction data related to 

Interior’s ability to protect, conserve, 

provide access to, and preserve natural, 

cultural, and recreational resources that 

we manage. 

5. Other mission management:

Questions will ask customers and 

partners to provide responses related to 

Interior’s ability to carry out those 

statutory missions that do not relate to 

resource management, such as serving 

communities and providing scientific 

data for decision-making. 

6. Rules, regulations, policies: This 

area focuses on obtaining feedback from 

customers regarding fairness, adequacy, 

and consistency in enforcing rules, 

regulations, and policies for which 

Interior is responsible. It will also help 

us understand public awareness of rules 

and regulations and whether or not they 

are articulated in a clear and 

understandable manner. 

7. Service delivery: Questions will 

seek feedback from customers regarding 

the manner in which services were 

delivered to them by Interior. Attributes 

will range from the courtesy of Interior 

staff to timeliness of service delivery 

and staff knowledge of the services 

being delivered. 

8. Technical assistance: Questions 

developed within this topic area will 

focus on obtaining customer feedback 

regarding attributes of the content and 

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ranging from timeliness, to quality, to 

usefulness, to the medium used (e.g., 

Web sites, publications, talks, videos), 

and the skill level of staff providing this 

assistance.

9. Program-specific: Questions for this 

area will reflect the specific details of a 

program that pertain to its customer 

respondents. The questions will be 

developed to address very specific and/

or technical issues related to the 

program. The questions will be geared 

toward gaining a better understanding 

about how to provide specific products 

and services and the public’s attitude 

toward their usefulness. 

10. General demographics: Some 

general demographics may be used to 

augment satisfaction questions in order 

to better understand the customer so 

that we can improve how we serve that 

customer. Demographics data will range 

from asking customers how many times 

they have used an Interior service or 

visited an Interior facility within a 

specific timeframe to their ethnic group 

and race. Sensitivity will be used in 

developing and selecting questions 

under this topic area so that the 

customer does not perceive an intrusion 

upon his/her privacy. Additionally, 

these questions will ONLY be asked as 

long as they are critical to 

understanding customer satisfaction and 

the character of the customer base. 

Demographics may also be used as part 

of a non-response bias strategy to ensure 

responses are representative of the 

contact universe. 

This effort does not duplicate any 

other survey being done by DOI or other 

Federal agencies. Other Federal agencies 

are conducting user surveys but are not 

soliciting comments on the delivery of 

DOI or DOI bureau/office products and 

services. As part of this effort, DOI 

consulted with other agencies, 

including the Department of Agriculture 

and the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, who conduct surveys of similar 

customers, with academic experts in the 

field of statistics, and with professional 

consulting groups who design and 

conduct statistically valid surveys. 

Anticipated Public Burden: We 

estimate approximately 60,000 

respondents submit DOI customer 

satisfaction surveys and comment cards 

each annually. The average public 

burden to complete a customer survey is 

15 minutes. We also estimate that there 

are approximately 60,000 respondents 

submitting comment cards annually, 

with the average public burden 

estimated at 3 minutes. Given these 

estimates, DOI anticipates a total time 

budget of 18,000 hours per year for the 

proposed renewal. 

Respondent types include coal 

operators, contractors/vendors, 

environmental groups, other 

governments (State, local, foreign), grant 

recipients, American Indians/Alaska 

Natives, industry groups, insular 

governments, interested publics 

(including community and specificinterest groups), law enforcement, 

mining companies, public information 

centers, scientific data users, 

universities/educators, utility 

companies, and visitors/recreationists. 

We estimate, based on a $15 per hour 

valuation of volunteer time and the 

projected budget hours, an approximate 

aggregate cost to respondents of 

$270,000. Burden includes the total 

time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

or disclose or provide the information, 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and 

utilizing technology and systems for 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing, and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to a 

collection of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collection of information; 

and (7) transmitting or otherwise 

disclosing information. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hours Cost’’

Burden: Agencies must estimate both 

the ‘‘hour’’ burden and ‘‘non-hour cost’’

burden to respondents or record keepers 

resulting from the collection of 

information. We have not identified any 

non-hour cost burdens for the 

information collection aspects of the 

programmatic customer satisfaction 

survey. Therefore, if you have costs to 

generate, maintain, and disclose this 

information, you should comments and 

provide your total capital and startup 

cost components or annual operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of service 

components. You should describe the 

methods you use to estimate major cost 

factors, including system and 

technology acquisition, expected useful 

life of capital equipment, discount 

rate(s), and the period of which you 

incur costs. Capital and startup costs 

include, among other items, computers 

and software you purchase to prepare 

for collecting information, monitoring, 

and record storage facilities. Generally, 

your estimates should not include 

equipment or services purchased: (1) 

Before October 1, 1995; (2) to comply 

with requirements not associated with 

the information collection; (3) for 

reasons other than to provide 

information or keep records for the 

Government; or (4) as part of customary 

and usual business or private practices.

Methodology: All requests to collect 

information under the auspices of this 

proposed renewal will be carefully 

evaluated to ensure consistency with 

the intent, requirements, and 

boundaries of this programmatic 

clearance. Interior’s Office of Planning 

and Performance Management will 

conduct an administrative review of 

each request and oversee technical 

reviews to ensure statistical validity and 

soundness. All information collection 

instruments will be designed and 

deployed based upon acceptable 

statistical practices and sampling 

methodologies, where appropriate, and 

will be used to obtain consistent, valid, 

data that are representative of the 

sample, account for non-response bias, 

and target response rates at or above 

levels needed to obtain statistically 

useful results. 

All submissions under the program of 

expedited approval must include a 

description of the survey methodology. 

This description must be specific and 

describe each of the following: (a) 

Respondent universe, (b) the sampling 

plan and all sampling procedures, 

including how individual respondents 

will be selected, (c) how the information 

collection instrument will be 

administered, (d) expected response rate 

and confidence levels, and (e) strategies 

for dealing with potential non-response 

bias. A description of any pre-testing 

and peer review of the methods and/or 

instrument is also highly encouraged. 

Improved information technology will 

be used, when possible, to reduce the 

burden on the public and to comply 

with requirements of the Government 

Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA). 

Electronic mail may be used to 

introduce and distribute information 

collection instruments to a sample of 

customers. In some cases, the 

instruments may be web-enabled so that 

respondents can complete them online, 

enabling the response analysis to be 

automated. In all cases, appropriate 

non-response bias strategies will be 

used to ensure that responses are 

representative of the contact universe. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

provides that a Federal agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB Control Number. 

Until OMB approves a collection of 

information, you are not obligated to 

respond. 

Comments: PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

requires each agency ‘‘* * * to provide 

notice * * * and otherwise consult 

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with members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning each proposed 

collection of information * * *’’

Agencies must specifically solicit 

comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the agency to perform its 

duties, including whether the 

information is useful; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

minimize the burden on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Furthermore, we are interested in any 

comments you may have to increase 

response rates.

To comply with the public 

consultation process, on May 10, 2004, 

we published a Federal Register Notice 

(Volume 69, Number 90, page 25916–

25918) announcing that we would 

submit this renewal/extension request 

to OMB for approval. The notice 

provided the required 60-day comment 

period. One public comment was 

received during the comment period 

and we have addressed the individual’s 

concern by responding directly to him 

and making appropriate revisions to our 

renewal/extension request. 

If you wish to comment in response 

to this notice, send your comments 

directly to the offices listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. OMB 

has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove the information collection, 

but may respond after 30 days. 

Therefore, to ensure maximum 

consideration, OMB should receive 

public comments by December 29, 2004. 

Public Comment Policy: Our practice 

is to make comments, including names 

and home addresses of respondents, 

available for public review during 

regular business hours. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their home address from the 

record, which we will honor to the 

extent allowable by law. There may be 

circumstances in which we would 

withhold from the record a respondent’s 

identity, as allowable by law. If you as 

a commenter, wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. However, we will not 

consider anonymous comments. We 

will make all submissions from 

organizations or business, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives of organizations or 

businesses, available for public 

inspection in their entirety. 

DOI Information Collection Contact:

Office of Planning and Performance 

Management (202) 208–1818.

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Richard T. Beck, 

Director, Office of Planning and Performance 

Management.

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BILLING CODE 4310–RK–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[CA–180] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource 

Management Plan and Associated 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Folsom Field Office

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Field Office in 

Folsom, California, intends to prepare a 

Resource Management Plan (RMP) with 

an associated Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to guide management 

activities for the public lands and 

resources under its jurisdiction. The 

public scoping process will begin with 

the publication of this notice. Public 

scoping meetings, to identify relevant 

issues and concerns, will be announced 

in advance through BLM’s Web site and 

in local news media.

DATES: Public meetings will be held 

throughout the planned scoping and 

preparation period. In order to ensure 

local community participation and 

input, several meetings will be held, at 

least one for each watershed. Written 

comments sent to the address listed 

below will be accepted until further 

notice. The time and location of public 

scoping meetings, public comment 

periods, and comment closing dates will 

be announced through local news 

media, direct mailings, and on the 

Folsom Field Office Web site at http://

www.ca.blm.gov/folsom within 15 days 

of the meetings.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to ‘‘RMP Comments,’’ BLM, 

Folsom Field Office, 63 Natoma Street, 

Folsom, CA 95630, or sent by fax to 

(916) 985–3259. Documents pertinent to 

this planning project may be examined 

at the Folsom Field Office. Comments, 

including names and street addresses of 

respondents, will be available for public 

review at the Folsom Field Office during 

regular business hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

holidays, and may be published as part 

of the RMP/EIS. Individuals who wish 

to withhold their name or street address 

from public review or from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

must state this prominently at the 

beginning of their written comments. 

Such requests will be honored to the 

extent allowed by law. The BLM will 

not consider anonymous comments. All 

submissions from organizations and 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick 

Cooper, RMP Coordinator, BLM, Folsom 

Field Office, 63 Natoma Street, Folsom, 

CA 95630, phone (916) 985–4474. To 

add a name to the RMP mailing list, 

contact Lou Cutajar, Public Contact 

Specialist, in the Folsom Field Office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Folsom Field Office is responsible for 

the management of approximately 

230,000 acres of public land within 

fourteen California counties: Colusa, 

Yuba, Nevada, Sutter, Placer, El Dorado, 

Sacramento, San Joaquin, Amador, 

Calaveras, Merced, Stanislaus, 

Tuolumne, and Mariposa. The BLM will 

work collaboratively with interested 

parties to identify the management 

decisions that are best suited to local, 

regional, and national needs and 

concerns. 

Preliminary issues and management 

concerns have been identified by BLM 

personnel, other agencies, and in 

meetings with individuals and user 

groups. The preliminary issues include: 

Management of public land resources at 

the watershed level; management of 

ecosystems and riparian areas to 

maintain and improve properly 

functioning conditions; management 

and protection of sensitive, rare, 

threatened, or endangered species; 

management of Wild and Scenic River 

corridors; implementation of the Federal 

Wildland Fire Policy; fluid and solid 

mineral development; meeting the 

needs of local and regional communities 

and the effects of a growing urban 

interface; land tenure adjustments, 

consideration of lands for special 

management designation; cultural 

resource identification, protection, and 

interpretation; and the provision of 

recreation opportunities to meet a 

growing and diverse demand. 

These preliminary issues will be 

further defined by direct input through 

active public participation. Through the 

plan scoping process, the public will 

help identify issues, questions, and 

concerns to be addressed by the RMP.