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adverse effects. Each project proposed 

in reliance on the new CX would be 

evaluated to determine if extraordinary 

circumstances apply. If the BLM’s 

review determines that extraordinary 

circumstances exist for an action that 

might otherwise be categorically 

excluded, or where the level of effects 

cannot be ascertained, the BLM would 

either require modification of the 

proposed action or would prepare an EA 

or EIS to support its decision making. 

Departmental and BLM regulations, 

manuals, handbooks, policies, and 

applicable land use plans provide 

direction and requirements regarding 

project design. 

As described in the substantiation 

report, the BLM has experience 

analyzing and authorizing geothermal 

exploration projects in an 

environmentally sustainable manner 

and considers the activities described in 

this proposal to be routine and their 

effects to be non-significant. Expediting 

permit approvals for geothermal 

exploration projects is essential to 

respond to the need to combat climate 

change using renewable resources 

managed on BLM-administered lands. 

Establishment of this proposed new CX 

would also facilitate implementation of 

BLM priorities for identifying steps to 

establish and implement a program to 

improve Federal permit coordination 

with respect to eligible projects, with 

the goal of accelerating responsible 

development of renewable energy (i.e., 

geothermal) on public lands. See 43 

U.S.C. 3002. 

Authorities: NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.); Executive Order (E.O.) 11514, 

March 5, 1970, as amended by E.O. 

11991, May 24, 1977; and CEQ 

regulations (40 CFR 1507.3). 

Stephen G. Tryon, 

Director,Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

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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 CascadeSiskiyou National Monument in 

Oregon/Washington and California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management. 

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 

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, lpbrown@blm.gov or (541) 

618–2200, or by contacting Joel Brumm, 

Assistant Monument Manager, 

jbrumm@blm.gov or (541) 618–2200. 

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: Ms. 

Lauren Brown, Ashland Field Office, 

Field Manager, telephone (541) 618– 

2200; address 3040 Biddle Rd, Medford, 

OR 97504; email blm_csnm_rmp@

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. Brown. 

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: 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 BLMadministered 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 

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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 

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