WSP08183

• File Number: 8273.400
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Land Management
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1983
• Author: BLM
• Title: BLM Planning - A Guide to Resource Management Planning on the Public Lands
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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The Resource Management Plan

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A Resource Management Plan (RMP) is a multiple-use plan that
provides management direction for all Federal resources. An en-
vironmental impact statement (EIS), meeting requirements of the
Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, is prepared to aid
decision-makers in seiecting a plan. The planning and EIS proc-
esses are fully integrated, and the results may by presented in one
document.

An example Is Federal and State air quality s.tandards.

. need for, and area to be covered by, more detailed and specific
activity plans;

An example is a decision to improve the condition of deer
habitat to a certain level.

. program constraints and general management practices that
affect planned management actions, including consideration of
social and economic conditions, demands, and constraints;

The RMP is often supplemented by more detailed, site speCific
managem'ent pfans for a particular land use activity, such as
livestock grazing.

An example is identification of areas to be covered by a
habitat management plan for wildlife.

The RMP establishes, in a written document:
. land areas for limited, restrictive, or exclusive use;

. support actions necessary to achieve specific resource goals
and objectives;

Examples are identification of lands suitable for transfer
or sale or identification of areas of critical environmental
concern required by the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act.

Examples include resource protection measures, such as
fire management or insect damage control, the general
transportation system required for access, general
cadastral surveyor property fine identification needs, and
withdrawals or land use restrictions and other realty ac-
tions, such as classification of lands for sale or transfer.

. allowable resource uses (either singly or in combination) and
minimum or maXimum levels of production or use to be maintained;

Examples are the identification of areas suitable for fur-
ther consideration for coal leasing or the determination of
the number of wild horses to be maintained in a given area.

. general sequences, that is, actions which 'cannot begin until
other actions are accomplished;

. resource condition goals and objectives;

An example is the need to obtain water rights before
developing water projects for wild horse herds,

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