Title II, Section 202 of the FLPMA provides guidance for the land use planning process of the BLM to coordinate planning efforts with Native American Indian tribes, other federal departments, and agencies of state and local governments. To accomplish this directive, the BLM is instructed to keep informed of state, local, and tribal plans; assure that consideration is given to such plans; and to assist in resolving inconsistencies between such plans and federal planning. The section goes on to state in Subsection (c)(9) that “Land use plans of the Secretary [of the Interior] under this section shall be consistent with state and local plans to the maximum extent he finds consistent with Federal law and the purposes of this Act.” The provisions of this section of the FLPMA are echoed in Section 1610.3 of BLM Resource Management Planning regulations.
In keeping with the provision of this section, state, local, and tribal officials were made aware of the planning process through the previously described mailings and meetings. The following is a list of plans reviewed during the Bradshaw-Harquahala Approved RMP planning effort:
Prescott National Forest Proposed Action: Forest Plan Amendment (November 2001)
Maricopa County 2020, Eye to the Future Comprehensive Plan (Revised) (August 2002)
Yavapai County General Plan (April 2003)
Maricopa Association of Governments: Desert Spaces Environmentally Sensitive Development Areas Policies and Design Guidelines (June 2000)
Wildlife 2006: The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Management Program Strategic Plan (January 2001)
City of Phoenix General Plan (December 2001)
City of Peoria General Plan (December 2002)
Town of Wickenburg General Plan (1988)
Town of Prescott Valley General Plan (January 2002)
Town of Buckeye General Development Plan (September 2001).