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appendix B’’ that apply to the CXs that 

BLM and BIA are adopting. As 

described below, the BLM and BIA will 

ensure that proposed actions comply 

with these ‘‘DOE Integral Elements’’ 

when relying on CXs adopted from 

DOE. The Department has determined 

that adoption of the CXs for the BLM’s 

and BIA’s use as described in this notice 

is appropriate. 

DOE Integral Elements 

When the BLM and BIA intend to rely 

on a CX adopted from DOE as described 

in this notice, the Responsible Official 

will evaluate the proposed action 

against the DOE’s Integral Elements, 

which are additional conditions for 

reliance on each CX. The Responsible 

Official will only rely on a CX adopted 

from DOE as identified in this notice if 

the proposed action complies with the 

DOE Integral Elements. The DOE 

Integral Elements are described in 10 

CFR 1021 subpart D, appendix B. The 

BLM and BIA will use their respective 

environment, safety, and health 

protocols when using these CXs. 

Consideration of Extraordinary 

Circumstances 

In consultation with DOE and NTIA, 

the BLM and BIA evaluated the 

extraordinary circumstances to be 

considered when applying these CXs. 

When applying these CXs, Responsible 

Officials (43 CFR 46.30) within the BLM 

and BIA will evaluate proposed actions 

covered by the CXs to determine 

whether any extraordinary 

circumstances, listed at 43 CFR 46.215, 

are present that would preclude reliance 

on the CX. The Department’s 

extraordinary circumstances include, in 

part, consideration of impacts on public 

health and safety; natural resources and 

unique geographic characteristics such 

as historic or cultural resources; park, 

recreation, or refuge lands; wilderness 

areas; wild or scenic rivers; national 

natural landmarks, sole or principal 

drinking water aquifers; prime 

farmlands; wetlands; floodplains; 

national monuments; migratory birds; 

and other ecologically significant or 

critical areas; unresolved conflicts 

concerning alternative uses of available 

resources; unique or unknown 

environmental risks; precedent for 

future decision-making; historic 

properties; listed species or critical 

habitat; low income or minority 

populations; access by Indian religious 

practitioners to, and for ceremonial use 

of, Indian sacred sites and the physical 

integrity of those sites; and contribution 

to the introduction, continued 

existence, or spread of invasive weeds 

or non-native invasive species. 

The Department’s list of extraordinary 

circumstances addresses those of the 

DOE found at 10 CFR 1021.410(b)(2) 

and those of the NTIA found at 89 FR 

22688; therefore, BLM and BIA 

Responsible Officials intending to rely 

on these CXs will review whether the 

proposed action has the potential to 

result in significant effects as described 

in the Department’s extraordinary 

circumstances. If the Responsible 

Official cannot rely on a CX to support 

a decision on a particular proposed 

action due to extraordinary 

circumstances, the Responsible Official 

will prepare an EA or EIS, consistent 

with 40 CFR 1501.4(b)(2) and 43 CFR 

46.205(c). 

Notice to the Public and Documentation 

of Adoption 

This notice identifies to the public 

that the BLM and BIA are adopting 11 

DOE CXs and 6 NTIA CXs for the BLM’s 

and BIA’s use. The notice identifies the 

types of actions to which the BLM and 

BIA would apply these CXs. The 

documentation of the adoptions is 

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

programs/planning-and-nepa/whatinforms-our-plans/nepa for the BLM, 

https://www.bia.gov/service/nepacompliance for BIA and at https://

www.doi.gov/oepc/nepa/categoricalexclusions. The BIA and the BLM will 

add the adopted CXs to their respective 

NEPA DM Chapters, 516 DM 10 and 11. 

Authorities 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.). 

Stephen G. Tryon, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO #4820000251] 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision for the Jove Solar Project, La 

Paz County, Arizona 

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 for the Jove Solar Project, 

located in La Paz County, Arizona. The 

Record of Decision signed on January 3, 

2025, constitutes the decision of the 

BLM, as approved by the Department of 

the Interior. 

DATES: The Department of the Interior 

approved the BLM’s Record of Decision 

on January 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The Record of Decision, 

Final Environmental Impact Statement, 

and other documents pertinent to the 

Jove Solar Project are available for 

review on the BLM ePlanning project 

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

eplanning-ui/project/2017881/510. 

Printed copies of the Record of Decision 

are available at the BLM Yuma Field 

Office, 7341 East 30th Street, Yuma, 

Arizona 85365. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Derek Eysenbach, Project Manager, at 

deysenbach@blm.gov, Bureau of Land 

Management, One North Central 

Avenue, Suite 800, Phoenix, Arizona 

85004, or by phone at (602) 417–9505. 

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. Eysenbach. 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 

Department of the Interior has approved 

the BLM’s decision to issue a right-ofway grant for an initial term of 30 years 

for construction, operation, 

maintenance, and decommissioning of a 

utility-scale solar photovoltaic facility, 

called the Jove Solar Project. The Project 

encompasses 3,495 acres of public lands 

administered by the BLM Yuma Field 

Office and 38 acres administered by La 

Paz County, located in southeastern La 

Paz County, Arizona, south of Interstate 

10 midway between Phoenix and the 

California border, approximately 22 

miles east-southeast of the community 

of Brenda and the I–10/Highway 60 

junction, and 30 miles west of the 

community of Tonopah. The Jove Solar 

Project consists of up to 1.2 million 

solar photovoltaic modules and 

associated infrastructure, new and 

improved roads, and powerlines for 

collection and transmission of 

electricity to the Cielo Azul Switchyard 

adjacent to the Ten West Link 500- 

kilovolt transmission line and will have 

a generation capacity of 600 megawatts 

or more. 

The decision to authorize this energy 

generation project on public lands is 

consistent with FLPMA and the BLM’s 

right-of-way regulations ((43 U.S.C. 


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1761) (https://www.govinfo.gov/link/ 

uscode/43/1761)); ((43 CFR part 2800) 

(https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-43/ 

part-2800)). Approval of this right-ofway grant constitutes the final decision 

of the Department of the Interior and is 

not subject to appeal under 

Departmental regulations at 43 CFR part 

4 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-43/ 

part-4). 

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1761 and 43 CFR part 

2800) 

Raymond Suazo, 

State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

[PO4820000251] 

Records of Decision and Approved 

Resource Management Plan for Bears 

Ears National Monument and Approval 

of the Amendment to the Manti-La Sal 

National Forest Land and Resource 

Management Plan in Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior; Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), and U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service (USDA Forest Service) (jointly 

‘‘the Agencies’’) announce the 

availability of the Records of Decision 

(ROD) for the Approved Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) for BLMadministered portions of the Bears Ears 

National Monument (BENM) and a ROD 

for the Approval of the Amendment to 

the 1986 Manti-La Sal National Forest 

Land and Resource Management Plan 

(LRMP) that adopts the Approved RMP 

for USDA Forest Service-administered 

portions of BENM located in 

southeastern Utah. The Department of 

the Interior Principal Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management signed the BLM ROD, 

which constitutes the final decision of 

the BLM and makes the Approved RMP 

effective immediately on BLMadministered lands. The Manti-La Sal 

National Forest Supervisor signed the 

USDA Forest Service ROD approving an 

amendment to the LRMP to adopt the 

Approved RMP. The amendment to the 

LRMP will become effective 30 days 

after the publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: The RODs and Approved 

RMP are available online at https://

eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2020347/510. Printed copies of 

the BLM ROD/Approved RMP are 

available for public inspection at the 

BLM Monticello Field Office, 365 North 

Main, Monticello, Utah 84535, and BLM 

Utah Public Room, 440 West 200 South, 

Ste. 500, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 or 

can be provided upon request by 

contacting BLM Project Manager Jill 

Stephenson at jstephenson@blm.gov or 

435–259–2141. The USDA Forest 

Service ROD/Approved RMP are 

available for public inspection at the 

Manti-La Sal National Forest Monticello 

Ranger District, 397 North Main Street, 

Monticello, Utah 84535 or can be 

provided upon request by contacting 

Michael Engelhart at 

michael.engelhart@usda.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: Jill 

Stephenson, Project Manager, telephone 

435–259–2100; address Bureau of Land 

Management Canyon Country District 

82 E Dogwood, Moab, Utah 84532; email 

jstephenson@blm.gov regarding the 

BLM ROD. Michael Engelhart, District 

Ranger, telephone 435–636–3341; 

address Manti-La Sal National Forest 

Monticello District PO Box 820, 

Monticello, UT 84535; email 

michael.engelhart@usda.gov, regarding 

the USDA Forest Service ROD. 

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. Stephenson. 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 encompasses 

approximately 1.36 million acres of 

Federal land administered by the BLM 

and USDA Forest Service in San Juan 

County, Utah. Presidential Proclamation 

10285 directs the Agencies to ‘‘prepare 

and maintain a new management plan 

for the entire monument’’ for the 

specific purposes of ‘‘protecting and 

restoring the objects identified [in 

Proclamation 10285] and in 

Proclamation 9558.’’ The RMP’s 

purpose is to provide a management 

framework, including goals, objectives, 

and management direction to guide 

BENM management consistent with the 

protection of BENM objects and the 

management direction provided in 

Proclamation 10285. The USDA Forest 

Service amendment’s purpose is to 

incorporate the approved BENM RMP 

and update land management 

allocations of the BENM boundary area 

into the Manti-La Sal LRMP. 

The Approved RMP is based on the 

Proposed RMP from the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

with minor changes to management 

actions, goals, and best practices. All 

changes are described in each Agency’s 

ROD (section 1.2 in the BLM ROD and 

section 3 and 6 in the USDA Forest 

Service ROD). The Agencies were 

informed in the development of the 

Approved RMP by input from the 

public, including from the scoping and 

public comment periods on the EIS and 

from the protest period, cooperating 

agencies, State and local governments, 

including the Utah Division of Wildlife 

Resources, government-to-government 

consultation with Tribal Nations, the 

Monument Advisory Committee, the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

consultation, the Endangered Species 

Act consultation, and the Governor’s 

consistency review. The Approved RMP 

includes designation of the Aquifer 

Protection Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern, retains other 

existing Areas of Critical Environmental 

Concern, and closes portions of BENM 

to recreational shooting, among other 

management direction. 

The BLM and USDA Forest Service 

provided the Proposed RMP/Final EIS 

to the public on October 4, 2024, for a 

30-day protest period and received 40 

protest letters. The USDA Forest Service 

adopted the BLM’s administrative 

review protest procedures, as provided 

by 36 CFR 219.59(a). The BLM and 

USDA Forest Service jointly signed a 

memorandum documenting the 

resolutions of all protests for both 

Agencies. 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). While no protests were 

granted, the Agencies made several edits 

to the Approved RMP text to improve 

clarity based on input received during 

the protest period. 

The BLM provided the Proposed 

RMP/Final EIS to the Governor of Utah 

for a 60-day Governor’s consistency 

review on October 4, 2024. The 

Governor’s Office identified concerns 

and inconsistencies between the 

Proposed RMP/FEIS and the State and 

local plans, policies, and programs in a 


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