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insured mortgage since buyers tend to 

have more limited income and lower 

equity in the properties. This collection 

of information provides a more 

thorough and complete appraisal of 

prospective HUD-insured single-family 

properties ensuring that mortgages are 

acceptable for FHA insurance and 

thereby protect the interest of HUD, the 

taxpayers, and the FHA insurance fund. 

The collection allows HUD to maintain 

an effective appraisal program with the 

ability to discipline appraisers and 

inform potential homeowners of the 

benefits of purchasing an independent 

home inspection. 

Respondents: Business or other for 

profit and potential home purchasers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

22,973. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

657,287. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Hours per Response: 0.02. 

Total Estimated Burdens: $497,627. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (3) Ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond; including through the 

use of appropriate automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comments in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35. 

Jeffrey D. Little, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Housing. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

Notice of Availability of the Approved 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendments and Record of Decision 

for Utility-Scale Solar Energy 

Development 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of a Record of Decision 

(ROD) for Approved Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) Amendments 

that update the public lands 

management framework to support 

utility-scale solar energy development 

and improve protection of important 

and sensitive resources. 

DATES: The BLM Principal Deputy 

Director and the Department of the 

Interior Principal Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management signed the ROD on 

December 19, 2024, which constitutes 

the decision of the BLM, as approved by 

the Department of the Interior, and 

makes the Approved RMP Amendments 

effective immediately. 

ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP 

Amendments are available online at 

https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2022371/510. 

Printed copies of the ROD/Approved 

RMP Amendments are available for 

public inspection at the BLM State 

Offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, 

Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, 

Oregon, Utah, Washington, and 

Wyoming or can be provided upon 

request by contacting the BLM at solar@

blm.gov. 

A copy of the Protest Resolution 

Report is available at: https://

www.blm.gov/programs/planning-andnepa/public-participation/protestresolution-reports. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Whitesides, Project Manager, 

National Renewable Energy 

Coordination Office, BLM Headquarters, 

email: solar@blm.gov or telephone: (801) 

598–8669. 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 Mr. Whitesides. 

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 Amendments change 

the following existing plans: 

• Agua Fria NM RMP (2010) 

• Arizona Strip RMP (2008) 

• Bradshaw Harquahala RMP (2010) 

• Grand Canyon-Parashant NM RMP 

(2008) 

• Ironwood Forest NM RMP (2013) 

• Kingman RMP (1995) 

• Lake Havasu RMP (2007) 

• Las Cienegas RMP (2003) 

• Lower Gila North MFP (1983) 

• Lower Sonoran RMP (2012) 

• Phoenix RMP (1989) 

• Safford RMP (1992/1994) 

• San Pedro Riparian NCA RMP (2019) 

• Sonoran Desert NM RMP (2012) 

• Vermilion Cliffs NM RMP (2008) 

• Yuma RMP (2010) 

• Alturas RMP (2008) 

• Bakersfield RMP (2014) 

• Bishop RMP (1993, 2016) 

• California Coastal NM RMP (2005) 

• California Desert Conservation Area 

Plan (2016) 

• Carrizo Plain NM RMP (2010) 

• Clear Creek RMP (2014) 

• Eagle Lake RMP (2008) 

• Eastern San Diego County RMP (2008) 

• Headwaters Forest Reserve RMP 

(2004) 

• King Range NCA RMP (2005) 

• Northwest California Integrated RMP 

(2024) 

• Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains 

NM RMP (2004) 

• Sierra RMP (2007) 

• South Coast RMP (1994) 

• Southern Diablo Mountain Range and 

Central Coast of California RMP 

(2007) 

• Surprise RMP (2008) 

• Ukiah RMP (2006) 

• Cotoni-Coast Dairies RMP 

Amendment—Environmental 

Assessment (2021) 

• Browns Canyon NM RMP (2020) 

• Canyons of the Ancients NM RMP 

(2010) 

• Colorado River Valley RMP (2015) 

• Colorado River Valley Roan Plateau 

RMP (2016) 

• Dominguez-Escalante NCA RMP 

(2017) 

• Eastern Colorado RMP (2024) 

• Grand Junction RMP (2015 

• Gunnison Gorge NCA RMP (2004) 

• Gunnison RMP (1993) 

• Kremmling RMP (2015) 

• Little Snake RMP (2011) 

• McInnis Canyons NCA RMP (2004) 

• San Luis RMP (1991) 

• Tres Rios RMP (2015) 

• Uncompahgre RMP (2020) 

• White River RMP (1997) 

• Gunnison Sage-Grouse Resource 

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• Bennett Hills Timmerman Hills MFP 

(1980) 

• Big Desert MFP (1981) 

• Big Lost MFP (1982) 

• Bruneau MFP (1983) 

• Cassia RMP (1985) 

• Challis RMP (1999) 

• Coeur d’Alene RMP (2007) 

• Cottonwood RMP (2009) 

• Craters of the Moon Monument RMP 

(2007) 

• Four Rivers RMP (2023) 

• Jarbidge RMP (2015) 

• Lemhi RMP (1987) 

• Little Lost and Birch Creek MFP 

(1985) 

• Magic MFP (1980) 

• Medicine Lodge RMP (1985) 

• Monument RMP (1986) 

• Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of 

Prey NCA RMP (2008) 

• Owyhee RMP (1999) 

• Pocatello RMP (2012) 

• Sun Valley MFP (1981) 

• Twin Falls MFP (1982) 

• Billings RMP (2015) 

• Butte RMP (2009) 

• Dillon RMP (2006) 

• HiLine RMP (2015) 

• Lewistown RMP (2021) 

• Miles City RMP (2015) 

• Missoula RMP (2021) 

• Pompeys Pillar NM RMP (2015) 

• Upper Missouri River Breaks NM 

RMP (2008) 

• Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon 

NCA RMP (2004) 

• Carson City RMP (2001) 

• Elko RMP (1987) 

• Ely RMP (2008) 

• Las Vegas RMP (1998) 

• Nevada Test and Training Range RMP 

(2004) 

• Red Rock Canyon NCA RMP (2005) 

• Shoshone-Eureka RMP (1986) 

• Sloan Canyon NCA RMP (2006) 

• Tonopah RMP (1997) 

• Wells RMP (1985) 

• Winnemucca RMP (2015) 

• Carlsbad RMP (1988) 

• El Malpais NCA RMP (2001) 

• Farmington RMP (2003) 

• Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks NM RMP 

(2007) 

• Mimbres RMP (1993) 

• Prehistoric Trackways NM RMP 

(2015) 

• Rio Puerco RMP (1986) 

• Roswell RMP (1997) 

• Socorro RMP (2010) 

• Taos RMP (2012) 

• White Sands RMP (1986) 

• Andrews RMP (2005) 

• Baker RMP (1989) 

• Brothers La Pine RMP (1989) 

• Cascade-Siskiyou NM RMP (2008) 

• John Day Basin RMP (2015) 

• Lakeview RMP (2003) 

• Northwestern and Coastal Oregon 

RMP (2016) 

• San Juan Islands NM RMP (2023) 

• Southeastern Oregon RMP (2002) 

• Southwestern Oregon RMP (2016) 

• Spokane District RMP (1987) 

• Steens Mountain Cooperative 

Management and Protection Area 

RMP (2005) 

• Three Rivers RMP (1992) 

• Two Rivers RMP (1986) 

• Upper Deschutes RMP (2005) 

• Upper Klamath Basin and Wood River 

Wetland RMP (1996) 

• West Eugene Wetlands RMP (2015) 

• Bears Ears NM—RMPs for the Indian 

Creek and Shash Jaa Units (2020) 

• Beaver Dam Wash NCA RMP (2016) 

• Box Elder RMP (1986) 

• Cedar Beaver Garfield Antimony RMP 

(1986) 

• Grand Staircase-Escalante NM RMP 

(2020) 

• House Range RMP (1987) 

• Isolated Tract Planning Analysis 

(1985) 

• Kanab RMP (2008) 

• Kanab-Escalante RMP (2020) 

• Moab RMP (2008) 

• Monticello RMP (2008) 

• Park City MFP (1975) 

• Pinyon MFP (1983) 

• Pony Express RMP (1990) 

• Price RMP (2008) 

• Randolph MFP (1980) 

• Red Cliffs NCA RMP (2016) 

• Richfield RMP (2008) 

• St. George RMP (1999) 

• Vernal RMP (2008) 

• Warm Springs RMP (1987) 

• Buffalo RMP (2015) 

• Casper RMP (2007) 

• Cody RMP (2015) 

• Green River RMP (1997) 

• Kemmerer RMP (2010) 

• Lander RMP (2014) 

• Newcastle RMP (2000) 

• Pinedale RMP (2008) 

• Rawlins RMP (2008) 

• Snake River RMP (2004) 

• Worland RMP (2015) 

The 11-state planning area for this 

effort includes approximately 162 

million acres of public lands 

administered by the BLM. 

The Approved RMP Amendments 

improve the BLM’s management 

consistency with respect to utility-scale 

solar energy development, address 

changes in solar energy technology that 

have occurred since the BLM’s last solar 

energy planning effort in 2012 (2012 

Western Solar Plan), support national 

renewable energy and climate goals, and 

incorporate updated information about 

important resource values. As the BLM 

seeks to advance its solar energy 

program, it does so while managing 

other important land uses. These 

include recreational use; agricultural 

use, such as grazing; other energy and 

mineral development; resource 

protection, including National 

Monuments, National Conservation 

Areas, wilderness areas, wilderness 

study areas, other specially designated 

areas, wildlife and big game, water 

resources, and cultural, historical, and 

paleontological resources; and the 

restoration of lands and resources, in all 

cases where appropriate and consistent 

with the principles of multiple use and 

sustained yield, as defined by the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act. 

The Approved RMP Amendments 

describe the BLM’s approach for 

implementing utility-scale photovoltaic 

solar energy development on BLMadministered land. The Approved RMP 

Amendments exclude approximately 

131 million acres of public lands from 

solar development to protect sensitive 

resources as described in the exclusion 

criteria in the ROD. Approximately 31 

million acres of public lands are 

available for solar projects under the 

Approved RMP Amendments, including 

approximately 3.8 million acres of 

designated avoidance lands. Public 

lands are available if, after accounting 

for the resource-based exclusions and 

the exclusion for slopes exceeding 10 

percent, they are within 15 miles of an 

existing or planned transmission line 

with capacity of at least 69 kilovolts, or 

they are identified as ‘‘previously 

disturbed’’ based on criteria described 

in the ROD. The Approved RMP 

Amendments also update programmatic 

design features and environmental 

evaluation processes and incorporate 

new information and analysis. The 

Approved RMP Amendments will 

improve the solar energy project 

application process by excluding 

projects from areas where protection is 

warranted while maintaining sufficient 

siting flexibility to account for sitespecific resource considerations on a 

case-by-case basis under subsequent 

project-specific decisions. 

The BLM provided the Proposed RMP 

Amendments on August 30, 2024, for a 

30-day protest period and received 35 

valid protests. The BLM Director 

resolved all protests. Responses to 

protest issues have been compiled and 

documented in a Protest Resolution 

Report (see ADDRESSES). The BLM 

incorporated minor clarifications in the 

Approved RMP Amendments in 

response to protests, but no substantive 

changes were necessary. 

The BLM provided the Proposed RMP 

Amendments to the Governors of 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, 

Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, 

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60-day Governor’s consistency review. 

The Governors of California, Idaho, 

Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, 

Utah, and Wyoming raised concerns 

regarding the Proposed RMP 

Amendments, identified inconsistencies 

with State and local plans, and provided 

recommendations relating to the BLM’s 

Proposed RMP Amendments. The BLM 

considered the information provided by 

the Governors but declined to revise the 

Approved RMP Amendments, finding 

that the Approved RMP Amendments 

appropriately integrate State and local 

plans to the maximum extent practical, 

consistent with Federal law. The 

Governors of California and Utah 

appealed the BLM’s response to the 

Governors’ consistency review to the 

BLM Director. The BLM Director 

determined that the Approved RMP 

Amendments provide for a reasonable 

balance between the national interest 

and the State’s interest, and notified the 

Governors that no changes to the 

Approved RMP Amendments were 

necessary as a result of the Governor’s 

consistency review. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 (2022), 43 CFR 

subpart 1610.) 

Nada Wolff Culver, 

Principal Deputy Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4331–27–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[SDMT 106276277; SDM 112598] 

Public Land Order No. 7956; 

Withdrawal of Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek Watershed; South Dakota 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public land order. 

SUMMARY: This Public Land Order (PLO) 

withdraws 20,510 acres of National 

Forest System (NFS) lands in the Black 

Hills National Forest, Pennington 

County, South Dakota, from settlement, 

sale, location, or entry under the public 

land laws; location and entry under the 

United States mining laws; and leasing 

under the mineral and geothermal 

leasing laws for 20 years, subject to 

valid existing rights, to protect the 

cultural and natural resources of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

Watershed, including municipal water 

for Rapid City and Ellsworth Air Force 

Base. 

DATES: This PLO takes effect on 

December 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adam Carr, Branch Chief, Realty Lands 

and Renewable Energy, BLM Montana/ 

Dakotas, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, 

Montana 59101, telephone: (406) 538– 

1957; email: acarr@blm.gov; or Shawn 

Cochran, Forest Supervisor, Black Hills 

National Forest, 1019 N. 5th Street, 

Custer, South Dakota 57730, telephone: 

(605) 673–9203, email: shawn.cochran@

usda.gov. 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. Individuals outside the United 

States should use the relay services 

offered within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this withdrawal is to protect 

and preserve cultural and natural 

resources of the Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek Watershed, including 

municipal water for Rapid City and 

Ellsworth Air Force Base, from the 

known and potential adverse 

environmental impacts that may arise 

from exploration and development of 

federally owned minerals. A Notice of 

Application for Withdrawal and 

Notification of Public Meeting was 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 21, 2023 (88 FR 17006). 

Order 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of the Interior by Section 

204 of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), 43 

U.S.C. 1714, it is ordered as follows: 

1. Subject to valid existing rights, the 

following described lands are hereby 

withdrawn from settlement, sale, 

location, or entry under the public land 

laws; location and entry under the 

United States mining laws; and leasing 

under the mineral and geothermal 

leasing laws for 20 years. 

Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota 

T. 1 N., R. 4 E., 

Sec. 1; 

Sec. 2, that part lying easterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 11, that part lying easterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Secs. 12 and 13; 

Sec. 14, that part lying easterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 23, that part lying northeasterly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 24, that part lying northeasterly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 25, that part lying northeasterly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary. 

T. 2 N., R. 4 E., 

Sec. 13, lots 1 thru 5, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4, and 

SE1⁄4, except Tract A of H.E.S. No. 241, 

that part lying southerly of Pactola 

Reservoir—Rapid Creek subwatershed 

boundary; 

Sec. 14, lot 2, SW1⁄4, W1⁄2SE1⁄4, and 

SE1⁄4SE1⁄4, that part lying southeasterly 

of Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 22, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4, those portions lying 

southerly and easterly of Pactola 

Reservoir—Rapid Creek subwatershed 

boundary; 

Sec. 23, that part lying easterly of Pactola 

Reservoir—Rapid Creek subwatershed 

boundary; 

Sec. 24, except Tract A of H.E.S. No. 241; 

Sec. 25, except M.S. No. 1948 and M.S. No. 

2016; 

Sec. 26, that part lying easterly of Pactola 

Reservoir—Rapid Creek subwatershed 

boundary; 

Sec. 27, those portions lying easterly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 34, lots 1, 4, 6, and 9, E1⁄2NE1⁄4, 

NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, and S1⁄2SE1⁄4SE1⁄4, that part 

lying easterly of Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 35, except M.S. No. 2047, that part 

lying northeasterly of Pactola 

Reservoir—Rapid Creek subwatershed 

boundary; 

Sec. 36, except M.S. No. 1948; 

M.S. No. 1019, that part lying southerly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

M.S. No. 2047. 

T. 1 N., R. 5 E., 

Sec. 2, that part lying southwesterly of 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Secs. 3 thru 7; 

Sec. 8, except M.S. No. 1918; 

Secs. 9 and 10; 

Sec. 11, that part lying northwesterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 14, that part lying northwesterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 15, N1⁄2, N1⁄2SW1⁄4, N1⁄2SE1⁄4, and 

NE1⁄4NE1⁄4SW1⁄4SE1⁄4, that part lying 

northerly of the Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 16, that part lying northwesterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 17, except M.S. Nos. 1916 and 1918 

and M.S. No. 2092, Peggy Lode, Merrit 

No. 1 Lode, and Luckly Boy Lode; 

Sec. 18, N1⁄2, NE1⁄4SW1⁄4, and SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 19, NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4NW1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4, S1⁄2, 

that part lying northwesterly of the 

Pactola Reservoir—Rapid Creek 

subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 20, except M.S. No. 1916, that part 

lying northerly of the Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek subwatershed boundary; 

Sec. 21, NW1⁄4, that part lying 

northwesterly of the Pactola Reservoir— 

Rapid Creek subwatershed boundary; 


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