An RMP is a land use plan that provides broad multiple-use direction for managing BLM-administered public lands. The FLPMA directs the BLM to develop such land use plans to provide for appropriate uses of public land. Decisions in land use plans guide future land management actions and subsequent site-specific implementation decisions. The RMP establishes goals and objectives (desired outcomes) for resource management and the measures necessary to achieve them. These measures are expressed as management actions and allowable uses (that is, lands open or available for certain uses [including any applicable restrictions] and lands closed to certain uses).
The purpose of this RMP revision project is to ensure that public lands are managed according to the principles of multiple use identified in FLPMA, while maintaining the valid existing rights and other obligations already established. The new RMPs will address changing needs of the Planning Area and create a management strategy that effectively responds to the planning issues within the framework of the planning criteria that best achieves a combination of the following:
Employ a community-based planning approach to seek broadly supported solutions to issues, and collaborate with federal, state, and local cooperating agencies.
Establish goals and objectives for managing resources and resource uses in the approximately 3.1 million surface acres and 4.2 million acres of federal mineral estate in the Planning Area administered by the BLM CYFO and WFO in accordance with the principles of multiple use and sustained yield.
Identify land use plan decisions to guide future land management actions and subsequent site-specific implementation decisions.
Identify management actions and allowable uses anticipated to achieve the established goals and objectives and reach desired outcomes.
To provide comprehensive management direction, make land use decisions for all appropriate resources and resource uses the BLM administers in the Planning Area or update existing decisions.
Provide for compliance with applicable tribal, federal, and state laws, standards, and implementation plans, and BLM policies and regulations.
• Recognize the Nation’s need for domestic sources of minerals, food, timber, and fiber, and incorporate requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58).
Retain flexibility to adapt to new and emerging issues and opportunities and to provide for adjustments to decisions over time based on new information and monitoring.
Strive to be compatible with the plans and policies of adjacent local, state, tribal, and federal agencies and consistent with federal laws, regulations, and BLM policies; and be flexible enough to adapt to future BLM policy and guidance updates.