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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 [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00954]

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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 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 https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2023675/510. 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, [email protected] or 
(541) 618-2200, or by contacting Joel Brumm, Assistant Monument 
Manager, [email protected] or (541) 618-2200.
    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: Ms. Lauren Brown, Ashland Field 
Office, Field Manager, telephone (541) 618-2200; address 3040 Biddle 
Rd, Medford, OR 97504; 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 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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