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stored, removed, introduced, conveyed, 

carried, or delivered in facilities 

Reclamation owns, manages, operates, 

or funds; or (3) establishes operation, 

maintenance, and replacement 

responsibilities for such facilities. 

(8) Issuance or renewal of use 

authorizations (as defined in 43 CFR 

429.2, including crossing agreements 

which provide rights-of-way) that 

authorize use of Reclamation land, 

facilities, or waterbodies where one or 

more of the following apply: (a) impacts 

of the action are expected to be minor 

and localized; (b) the action does not 

lead to a major public or private action; 

(c) the only result of the authorization 

will be to implement an administrative 

or financial practice or change; or (d) 

the level of use or impacts to resources 

is not increased. 

(10) Reserved. 

(14) Reserved. 

E. Financial Assistance, Loans, and 

Funding 

(1) Financial assistance, cooperative 

agreements, grants, loans, contracts, or 

other funding, where (a) the underlying 

action being funded would be covered 

by another Reclamation CE if 

Reclamation were implementing the 

action itself, or (b) the action is confined 

to areas already impacted by farming or 

development activities and the impacts 

are expected to be minor and localized. 

(2) Reserved. 

(3) Reserved. 

Stephen G. Tryon, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

Record of Decision and Approved 

Resource Management Plan for the 

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks 

National Monument, New Mexico 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

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 Organ 

Mountains-Desert Peaks National 

Monument (Monument) located in Don ̃ a 

Ana County, New Mexico. The BLM 

New Mexico State Director signed the 

ROD on January 8, 2025, which 

constitutes the decision of the BLM and 

makes the Approved RMP effective 

immediately. 

DATES: The New Mexico State Director 

signed the ROD on January 8, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP 

are available online at: https://

eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/92170/510. Printed copies of the 

ROD/Approved RMP are available for 

public inspection at the BLM Las Cruces 

District Office, 1800 Marquess Street, 

Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005, 

telephone: (575) 525–4464, or can be 

provided upon request by contacting 

Monument Manager Lane Hauser, BLM 

Las Cruces District Office; telephone: 

(575) 525–4464, email lhauser@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: 

Monument Manager Lane Hauser, BLM 

Las Cruces District Office; telephone: 

(575) 525–4464; address: 1800 Marquess 

Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005; 

email: lhauser@blm.gov. Individuals in 

the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

Tele Braille) to access 

telecommunications relay services for 

contacting Mr. Lane Houser. 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 replaces previous land 

use management guidance found in the 

1993 Mimbres RMP, as amended, for all 

Monument objects, lands, resources, 

resource values, and wildlife habitat. 

The Approved RMP provides long-term 

management for approximately 496,330- 

acres of BLM-administered public lands 

in Don ̃ a Ana County, New Mexico. In 

accordance with Presidential 

Proclamation 9131 (79 FR 30431); 

Section 2 of the Antiquities Act of 1906 

(Pub. L. 59–206); the John D. Dingell Jr. 

Conservation, Management, and 

Recreation Act of 2019 (Pub. L. 116–9) 

(Dingell Act); and the Wilderness Act of 

1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the 

Approved RMP employs protection, 

preservation, and conservation 

principles as a management framework 

to administer the Monument while 

providing the public with opportunities 

to observe, study, and enjoy Monument 

lands. The Approved RMP identifies 

land use allocations and resource 

management goals, objectives, and 

direction for the protection of objects of 

scientific and historic interest, 

preservation of wilderness character, 

and conservation of natural and cultural 

resources, resource values, and wildlife 

habitat. 

The Approved RMP is consistent with 

appropriate laws, regulations, executive 

orders and proclamations, and agency 

policy, including, but not limited to, the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act, the National Environmental Policy 

Act, the Endangered Species Act, and 

section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act. Through the planning 

process, the BLM considered reasonably 

foreseeable impacts associated with the 

land use allocations and resource 

management decisions. The BLM 

assessed five alternatives in the Draft 

and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) and selected Alternative 

E as the Proposed RMP, now Approved 

RMP. 

In order to meet the purpose and need 

of the planning effort and the mandate 

of Presidential Proclamation 9131, the 

BLM developed decisions of allowable 

and prohibited uses of public lands 

within the Monument. As with all 

decisions in the Approved RMP, the 

BLM considered input from Tribal 

Nations, cooperating State and Federal 

agencies, the public, and the Office of 

the Governor of New Mexico. 

All clarifications and modifications 

made between the publication of the 

Proposed RMP and the Approved RMP 

are summarized in the ROD. One update 

relates to the analysis of the social cost 

of greenhouse gases in the Approved 

RMP. The Proposed RMP and the Final 

EIS relied on the 2021 Interagency 

Working Group estimates to calculate 

the social cost of greenhouse gases. The 

ROD and Approved RMP adopt the 2023 

Environmental Protection Agency 

calculations for analyzing the social cost 

of greenhouse gases. The BLM also 

clarified the wilderness management 

goals in the Approved RMP to be 

consistent with the Wilderness Act. In 

addition, new management direction 

was added for the development of a 

travel management plan. The specific 

language is below: 

• Goal: Subject to valid existing 

rights, exceptions or special provisions 

specifically authorized by appropriate 

legal authority, the BLM shall be 

responsible for preserving the 

Wilderness character of the area and so 

administer such area for the purpose it 

was designated by Congress. In doing 

so, the BLM shall not designate a 

permanent or temporary road within a 

designated Wilderness area for 

motorized vehicle use or mechanical 

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use of motorized equipment, 

motorboats, the landing of aircraft, or 

the establishment of a structure or 

installation within any such area. 

• Management Direction: The BLM 

shall develop a Travel and 

Transportation Management Plan during 

implementation of this RMP that 

incorporates guidance, direction, 

restrictions, exceptions, and special 

provisions provided for in the 2019 John 

D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, 

Management and Recreation Act, as 

amended; the 2009 Omnibus Public 

Land Management Act, as amended; the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended; the 

Wilderness Act of 1964, as amended; or 

other applicable legal authorities, as 

appropriate. 

These modifications do not constitute 

substantial changes from the Proposed 

RMP to the Approved RMP. 

The BLM provided announcement of 

the availability of the Proposed RMP 

and Final EIS on October 11, 2024, (89 

FR 82622) for a 30-day public protest 

period and received seven protest 

letters. Upon careful review of the 

issues identified in each of the seven 

protest letters, the BLM Director 

resolved all protests. No changes to the 

ROD or Approved RMP were necessary 

to address valid protests. Responses to 

protest issues were compiled and 

documented in a Protest Resolution 

Report (see ADDRESSES). 

The BLM provided the Proposed RMP 

and Final EIS to the Governor of New 

Mexico for a 60-day Governor’s 

consistency review on October 11, 2024. 

The Office of the Governor of New 

Mexico did not identify any concerns or 

potential inconsistencies between the 

Proposed RMP and State and local 

plans, policies, and programs. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 43 CFR 1610.5– 

1) 

Melanie G. Barnes, 

BLM New Mexico State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

New Recreation Fee Areas and New 

Fees for Existing Individual Special 

Recreation Permits for On-River 

Camping in the Gunnison River 

Special Recreation Management Area 

Within the Dominguez-Escalante 

National Conservation Area, Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to establish fees. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Lands 

Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA), 

the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

Grand Junction Field Office (GJFO), 

Upper Colorado River District, and the 

Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO), 

Southwest District, intend to establish 

recreation fee areas at existing 

developed campgrounds, future 

developed campgrounds and campsites, 

and for designated campsites within the 

Gunnison River Special Recreation 

Management Area (SRMA) in the 

Dominguez-Escalante National 

Conservation Area (D–E NCA) as 

managed by the field offices as one NCA 

unit in Delta, Mesa, and Montrose 

Counties. 

DATES: The new fees will take effect on 

July 14, 2025 unless the BLM publishes 

a Federal Register notice to the 

contrary. 

ADDRESSES: Documents concerning this 

fee change may be reviewed at the 

Grand Junction Field Office, 2815 H 

Road, Grand Junction, CO 81506; phone: 

(970) 244–3000; and online at: https:// 

www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/ 

permits-and-fees/business-plans. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zack Kelley, acting National 

Conservation Area Manager, or Erin 

Jones, Deputy District Manager, with the 

Upper Colorado River District, both at 

the Grand Junction Field Office, 

telephone: (970) 244–3000. 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 BLM. 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: Consistent 

with the FLREA, the intent of recreation 

fees is to help protect natural resources, 

provide for public health and safety, 

and facilitate access to public lands and 

related waters, and not to maximize fee 

revenue. Fees are a way of ensuring that 

those who actively use recreation 

opportunities make a greater, but 

reasonable, contribution toward 

protecting and enhancing those 

opportunities than those who do not 

utilize recreational opportunities. 

FLREA directs the Secretary of the 

Interior to publish a 6-month advance 

notice in the Federal Register whenever 

new recreation fee areas are established. 

In accordance with BLM policy, the 

business plan for the D–E NCA explains 

the fee collection process and how fees 

will be used at these sites. 

The BLM will establish new 

expanded amenity recreation fees at the 

existing Big Dominguez and Potholes 

campgrounds. The BLM will establish 

future expanded amenity fee collection 

for future designated campsites 

(approximately 70) throughout the D–E 

NCA as expanded amenities are 

developed and campsites are designated 

to meet public need and to provide for 

resource protection. 

The expanded amenity fee for 

developed campsites is $20 per night 

per site (up to two vehicles included 

and no more than five participants per 

vehicle). For larger capacity sites, as 

identified at the campground by the 

BLM, each additional vehicle beyond 

the first two vehicles will be $10 each. 

A vehicle is defined as legal 

transportation used to access the site 

(e.g., car, truck, motorcycle, van, or 

other wheeled conveyance). Participants 

includes non-human participants (e.g., 

dogs, horses, alpacas, etc.). 

Because the entirety of the D–E NCA 

meets the definition of a Special Area, 

the BLM may also establish Individual 

Special Recreation Permits (ISRP) and 

associated fees to be paid by visitors 

participating in activities requiring 

special management. Consistent with 

this authority, this notice also provides 

the required notification to apply a fee 

structure to the ISRP established for the 

Gunnison River SRMA for on-river 

camping. The BLM may also establish 

an ISRP fee for additional areas where 

the Authorized Officer, in the future, 

determines recreation requires special 

management through an ISRP. 

Notification of future ISRP fees for any 

additional areas within the D–E NCA 

will be published in the Federal 

Register. Day-use areas and areas where 

dispersed/undeveloped camping is 

permitted will remain available 

throughout D–E NCA without a 

reservation or a fee. 

The ISRP fee is $20 per night per site 

for small groups (1 to 5 participants), 

$50 per night per site for medium 

groups (6 to 14 participants), and $100 


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