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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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO4820000251] 

Record of Decision and Approved 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendment for the Rough Hat Clark 

Solar Project in Clark County, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

announces the availability of the Record 

of Decision (ROD) and Approved 

Resource Management Plan Amendment 

(RMPA) for the Rough Hat Clark Solar 

Project located in Clark County, Nevada. 

The ROD/Approved RMPA constitutes 

the final decision of the BLM as 

approved by the Department of the 

Interior (DOI). 

ADDRESSES: The ROD is available online 

at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanningui/project/2019992/510. Printed copies 

of the ROD are available for public 

inspection at the Southern Nevada 

District Office, Las Vegas Field Office, 

4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, 

Nevada 89130, or can be provided upon 

request by contacting Jessica Headen, 

Project Manager, telephone (702) 515– 

5206, address Bureau of Land 

Management, 4701 N. Torrey Pines 

Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89130. 

The Protest Resolution Report is 

available at: https://www.blm.gov/ 

programs/planning-and-nepa/publicparticipation/protest-resolution-reports. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Headen, Project Manager, 

telephone (702) 515–5206, address 

Bureau of Land Management, 4701 N. 

Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 

89130.; email jheaden@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 TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services for 

contacting Ms. Headen. 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 

applicant, Candela Renewables, LLC, 

submitted a right-of-way (ROW) 

application to the BLM Las Vegas Field 

Office for the Rough Hat Clark Solar 

Project (Project), a 400-megawatt (MW) 

solar photovoltaic power generating 

facility and 700 MW of battery energy 

storage system (BESS) on approximately 

2,469 acres of BLM-managed public 

land located in the Pahrump Valley in 

Clark County, Nevada, southeast of the 

town of Pahrump and approximately 38 

miles west of Las Vegas. The Project 

would include a solar field, BESS, and 

a 230 kV transmission line from the 

solar facility to the GridLiance Trout 

Canyon Substation. 

The Department of the Interior has 

approved the BLM’s decision to issue a 

ROW grant for the Project as described 

in the Proposed RMPA/Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

as the Resources Integration Alternative. 

The ROD documents the BLM’s decision 

to authorize the construction, operation, 

maintenance, and decommissioning of 

the 400 MW photovoltaic solar power 

generating facility with battery energy 

storage on BLM-managed land in Clark 

County, Nevada. Approval of this ROW 

constitutes the final decision of the 

Department of the Interior and is not 

subject to appeal under Departmental 

regulations at 43 CFR part 4. 

There were no changes to the 

Approved RMPA from the Proposed 

RMPA/Final EIS, which was published 

on November 1, 2024. The Approved 

RMPA changes the existing 1998 Las 

Vegas Resource Management Plan to 

reclassify the Project area from Visual 

Resource Management (VRM) Class III 

to VRM Class IV. 

The BLM provided the Proposed 

RMPA/Final EIS for public protest on 

November 1, 2024, for a 30-day protest 

period and received seven valid 

protests. The BLM Director resolved all 

protests. Responses to protest issues 

were compiled and documented in a 

Protest Resolution Report (see 

ADDRESSES). 

The BLM provided the Proposed 

RMPA/Final EIS to the Governor of 

Nevada for a 60-day Governor’s 

consistency review on November 1, 

2024. The Governor’s Office replied on 

December 17, 2024, confirming that the 

proposed RMPA is consistent with State 

and local plans, policies, and programs. 

The Governor’s Office had no objections 

to the approval of the RMPA. 

The DOI’s Principal Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management signed the ROD/Approved 

RMP Amendment, which is in effect 

upon signature. 

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

1610.5–1) 

Jon K. Raby, 

Nevada State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

Record of Decision and Approved 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendment for the Lakeview 

Resource Management Plan, Lakeview 

District, Oregon 

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) Amendment 

for the Lakeview RMP, located in the 

BLM’s Lakeview District. 

DATES: The ROD/Approved RMP 

Amendment was signed and is in effect 

as of the date of signature. 

ADDRESSES: The ROD/Approved RMP 

Amendment is available online at the 

BLM National Environmental Policy Act 

Register at https://eplanning.blm.gov/ 

eplanning-ui/project/114300/510. 

Printed copies of the ROD/Approved 

RMP Amendment are available for 

public inspection at the BLM Lakeview 

District Office, 1301 South G Street, 


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Lakeview, Oregon 97630, or can be 

provided upon request by contacting the 

Lakeview office at (541) 947–2177. 

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: 

Todd Forbes, District Manager, 

Lakeview District Office; telephone: 

(541) 947–6100; email: tforbes@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 TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services for 

contacting Mr. Forbes. 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 Amendment amends the 

existing 2003 Lakeview RMP. The 

Lakeview planning area covers 

approximately 3.2 million acres of 

public lands in Lake and Harney 

counties. The Approved RMP 

Amendment provides management 

direction for lands with wilderness 

characteristics; makes planning-areawide travel and transportation/offhighway vehicle (OHV) allocations of 

open, limited, and closed; and provides 

management direction for livestock 

grazing in areas that fail to meet the 

BLM’s Standards for Rangeland Health 

and for processing voluntary livestock 

grazing permit relinquishments. 

The Approved RMP Amendment 

prioritizes the protection of wilderness 

characteristics in 24 whole units and 

portions of two units (42,547 acres) as 

new Section 202 Wilderness Study 

Areas (WSA). New Section 202 WSAs 

will be managed as: Visual Resource 

Management Class I, which allows for 

very low levels of change to the 

landscapes’ visual character that does 

not attract attention; Land Tenure Zone 

1, where the BLM retains the lands in 

public ownership for the life of the 

RMP; exclusion areas for all rights-ofway; and closed for the development 

and extraction of leasable and saleable 

minerals, including new mineral 

material sites. 

In addition, the Approved RMP 

Amendment prioritizes the protection of 

wilderness characteristics in eight 

whole units and portions of seven units 

(373,132 acres) over other multiple uses 

(Category C). These Category C units 

will be managed as: Visual Resource 

Management Class II public lands, 

which only allows for low levels of 

change to the landscapes visual 

character; Land Tenure Zone 1, where 

the BLM retains the lands in public 

ownership for the life of the RMP; 

exclusion areas for major rights-of-way 

and commercial renewable energy 

projects; and avoidance areas for all 

minor rights-of-ways. In addition, 

within these Category C units, leasable 

mineral extraction will be allowed, but 

subject to a no surface occupancy 

stipulation. All Category C units will be 

closed to saleable minerals, including 

new mineral material sites. Where roads 

form the boundary of a protected 

Category C wilderness characteristic 

unit, a 300-foot management setback 

from the centerline of paved and gravel 

roads and a 100-foot setback from the 

centerline of natural surface boundary 

roads is established. 

Under the Approved RMP 

Amendment, 12 areas totaling 

approximately 70,573 acres scattered 

across the planning area will be 

managed as open to OHV use; 397,671 

acres currently classified as open will be 

designated as limited to existing routes, 

resulting in a total of 3,121,499 acres of 

limited OHV classification in the 

planning area; and an additional 476 

acres of areas open to OHV use will be 

designated as closed resulting in a total 

of 11,285 acres closed to OHV. 

The Approved RMP Amendment: (1) 

requires the BLM to consider taking 

action in areas that are not meeting 

Standards for Rangeland Health even if 

existing livestock grazing is not a causal 

factor for non-attainment of the 

standard; (2) clarifies that the BLM will 

not permit increases to animal unit 

months if analysis finds that doing so 

could cause negative impacts to other 

resources in an area where there is 

either no rangeland health assessment 

and evaluation or if the evaluation no 

longer represents the existing resource 

conditions; and (3) requires the BLM to 

review the suitability and compatibility 

of livestock grazing use with other 

existing resources in the permitted area 

when a voluntary permit 

relinquishment is received. If livestock 

grazing is found to be unsuitable and/ 

or incompatible, the area will become 

unavailable to grazing and the forage 

allocation will be made to another 

resource. If grazing is found to be 

suitable and/or compatible, then the 

allocation of forage to livestock grazing 

use will remain in place. The BLM 

could authorize grazing use for the area 

under a grazing permit or designate the 

area as a reserve common allotment. 

The BLM provided the Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for a 30-day 

public protest period starting on 

November 7, 2024, and received 

15protests. The BLM Assistant Director 

for Resources and Planning resolved all 

valid protests. Responses to protest 

issues were compiled and documented 

in a Protest Resolution Report (see 

ADDRESSES). No changes to the 

Lakeview Proposed RMP Amendment/ 

Final EIS were necessary as a result of 

protests. 

The BLM provided the Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final EIS to the Governor 

of Oregon for a 30-day Governor’s 

consistency review. No inconsistencies 

with State or local plans, policies or 

programs were identified during the 

Governor’s consistency review of the 

Proposed RMP/Final EIS. No changes to 

the Lakeview Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final EIS were necessary 

as a result of the Governor’s consistency 

review. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.9, 43 CFR 

1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5) 

Nada Wolff Culver, 

Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

Records of Decision and Approved 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendments for Greater Sage-Grouse 

Rangewide Planning 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Records of Decision 

(RODs) for the Approved Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) Amendments 

for Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide 

Planning in Colorado and Oregon. The 

BLM’s Principal Deputy Director signed 

the RODs, which constitute the 

decisions of the BLM to approve the 

RMP Amendments. 

ADDRESSES: The RODs/Approved RMP 

Amendments are available online at 

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

project/2016719/510. Printed copies of 

the RODs/Approved RMP Amendments 

can be provided upon request by 

contacting BLM_HQ_GRSG_Planning@

blm.gov. 

A copy of the Protest Resolution 

Report is available at: https://

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


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