[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: 43CFR1610.5-3]

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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. 1610.5-3  Conformity and implementation.

    (a) All future resource management authorizations and actions, as 
well as budget or other action proposals to higher levels in the Bureau 
of Land Management and Department, and subsequent more detailed or 
specific planning, shall conform to the approved plan.
    (b) After a plan is approved or amended, and if otherwise authorized 
by law, regulation, contract, permit, cooperative agreement or other 
instrument of occupancy and use, the District and Area Manager shall 
take appropriate measures, subject to valid existing rights, to make 
operations and activities under existing permits, contracts, cooperative 
agreements or other instruments for occupancy and use, conform to the 
approved plan or amendment within a reasonable period of time. Any 
person adversely affected by a specific action being proposed to 
implement some portion of a resource management plan or amendment may 
appeal such action pursuant to 43 CFR 4.400 at the time the action is 
proposed for implementation.
    (c) If a proposed action is not in conformance, and warrants further 
consideration before a plan revision is scheduled, such consideration 
shall be through a plan amendment in accordance with the provisions of 
Sec. 1610.5-5 of this title.
    (d) More detailed and site specific plans for coal, oil shale and 
tar sand resources shall be prepared in accordance with specific 
regulations for those resources: Group 3400 of this title for coal; 
Group 3900 of this title for oil shale; and part 3140 of this title for 
tar sand. These activity plans shall be in conformance with land use 
plans prepared and approved under the provisions of this part.