[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: 43CFR1610.5-3]



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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 Field 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.



[48 FR 20368, May 5, 1983, as amended at 70 FR 14567, Mar. 23, 2005]