[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR1610.5-1]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1600--PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, BUDGETING--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart 1610--Resource Management Planning
 
Sec. 1610.5-1  Resource management plan approval and administrative review.

    (a) The proposed resource management plan or revision shall be 
submitted by the District Manager to the State Director for supervisory 
review and approval. When the review is completed the State Director 
shall either publish the proposed plan and file the related 
environmental impact statement or return the plan to the District 
Manager with a written statement of the problems to be resolved before 
the proposed plan can be published.
    (b) No earlier than 30 days after the Environmental Protection 
Agency publishes a notice of the filing of the final environmental 
impact statement in the Federal Register, and pending final action on 
any protest that may be filed, the State Director shall approve the 
plan. Approval shall be withheld on any portion of a plan or amendment 
being protested until final action has

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been completed on such protest. Before such approval is given, there 
shall be public notice and opportunity for public comment on any 
significant change made to the proposed plan. The approval shall be 
documented in a concise public record of the decision, meeting the 
requirements of regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (40 CFR 1505.2).