[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR1610.1]



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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.  1610.1  Resource management planning guidance.





    (a) Guidance for preparation and amendment of resource management 

plans may be provided by the Director and State Director, as needed, to 

help the Field Manager and staff prepare a specific plan. Such guidance 

may include the following:

    (1) National level policy which has been established through 

legislation, regulations, executive orders or other Presidential, 

Secretarial or Director approved documents. This policy may include 

appropriately developed resource management commitments, such as a 

right-of-way corridor crossing several resource or field office areas, 

which are not required to be reexamined as part of the planning process.

    (2) Analysis requirements, planning procedures and other written 

information and instructions required to be considered in the planning 

process.

    (3) Guidance developed at the State Director level, with necessary 

and appropriate governmental coordination as prescribed by Sec.  1610.3 

of this title. Such guidance shall be reconsidered by the State Director 

at any time during the planning process that the State Director level 

guidance is found, through public involvement or other means, to be 

inappropriate when applied to a specific area being planned.

    (b) A resource management plan shall be prepared and maintained on a 

resource or field office area basis, unless the State Director 

authorizes a more appropriate area.

    (c) An interdisciplinary approach shall be used in the preparation, 

amendment and revision of resource management plans as provided in 40 

CFR 1502.6. The disciplines of the preparers shall be appropriate to the 

values involved and the issues identified during the issue 

identification and environmental impact statement scoping stage of the 

planning process. The Field Manager may use any necessary combination of 

Bureau of Land Management staff, consultants, contractors, other 

governmental personnel, and advisors to achieve an interdisciplinary 

approach.



[48 FR 20368, May 5, 1983, as amended at 70 FR 14566, 14567, Mar. 23, 

2005; 70 FR 29208, May 20, 2005]