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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 1186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00079]

[[Page 1186]]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[PO4820000251]

Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved 
Resource Management Plan for the Rock Springs Field Office, Wyoming

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) Amendment for the Rock Springs Field Office located in Rock 
Springs, Wyoming. The BLM Principal Deputy Director signed the ROD on 
December 20, 2024, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes 
the Approved RMP effective immediately.

DATES: The BLM Principal Deputy Director signed the ROD/Approved RMP 
Amendment on December 20, 2024.

ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP is available online at the RMP 
ePlanning website: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/13853/510. Printed copies of the ROD/Approved RMP are available for 
public inspection at the Rock Springs Field Office (RSFO) or can be 
provided upon request by contacting Kimberlee Foster, Field Manager, 
telephone (307) 352-0201; or at the address BLM Rock Springs Field 
Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901; email 
[email protected].
    A copy of the Protest Resolution Report is available at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberlee Foster, Field Manager, 
telephone 307-352-0201; address 280 Hwy. 191 N, Rock Springs, WY 82901; 
email [email protected]. 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 the individual listed above. 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 planning area is located in portions of 
Lincoln, Sweetwater, Uinta, Sublette, and Fremont counties in 
southwestern Wyoming, and encompasses approximately 3.6 million acres 
of public land.
    Resources on lands administered by the BLM within the planning area 
are currently managed under the Green River RMP (1997) and Jack Morrow 
Hills Coordinated Activity Plan (CAP) (2006), as amended. The purpose 
of the Rock Springs RMP revision is to provide an updated, 
comprehensive, and environmentally adequate framework for managing and 
allocating uses of public lands and resources administered by the BLM 
in the RSFO. The Rock Springs RMP EIS evaluated a variety of resource 
conflicts and considered uses such as energy and minerals development, 
renewable energy, transmission infrastructure, lands and realty 
actions, and livestock grazing/rangeland management, as well as 
resource protections for cultural and historic resources and wildlife 
habitat.
    The BLM published a notice of availability for the Draft EIS and 
RMP in the Federal Register on August 17, 2023, which initiated a 152-
day comment period (88 FR 56654). During the public comment period, the 
BLM received more than 35,000 unique written submissions containing 
approximately 4000 substantive comments. The Draft EIS comments helped 
the BLM refine the Final EIS and guided the development of the Proposed 
RMP.
    The BLM provided the Proposed RMP for public protest on August 23, 
2024 (89 FR 68187), for a 30-day protest period, and received 27 
letters that contained valid protests. The BLM Assistant Director for 
Resources and Planning resolved all protests. Responses to protest 
issues were compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution Report (see 
ADDRESSES). No changes were made to the Approved RMP as a result of 
protest resolution.
    The BLM provided the Proposed RMP to the Governor of Wyoming for a 
60-day Governor's consistency review. The State Director made no 
changes to the Proposed RMP as a result of the Governor's review. On 
December 13, 2024, the Governor submitted an appeal to the BLM on the 
State Director's response to the Governor's consistency review. In 
accordance with planning regulations (1610.3-2), the BLM notified the 
Governor on December 20, 2024, of the reasons for the determination to 
reject the Governor's recommendations.

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 43 CFR 1610.5-1)

Andrew Archuleta,
BLM State Director.
[FR Doc. 2025-00079 Filed 1-6-25; 8:45 am]
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