This EA is a project-level analysis that considers all applicable management direction provided in the 1998 Las Vegas Resource Management Plan (RMP); this RMP is the current land use planning document used throughout the BLM ’s Southern Nevada District (BLM 1998). This EA tiers to the RMP and is hereby incorporated by reference, as encouraged by 40 CFR 1520.20.

The RMP provides long-term programmatic goals and objectives. This project decision must be consistent with the RMP or would require a land use plan amendment. RMP goals are expressed in broad, general terms and are timeless in that, unless otherwise noted, they have no specific date by which they are to be completed.