Southern Nevada District Office
FOR RELEASE: December 5, 2017
Updated information on the Revised Draft RMP will be available at https://go.usa.gov/xnBqm.
CONTACT: John Asselin (702) 515-5046; [email protected]
Public input requested for Revised Draft Resource Management Plan
LAS VEGAS – The Bureau of Land Management requests public input for a Revised Draft Southern Nevada District Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.
The BLM has determined that a Revised Draft RMP/EIS should be developed and an opportunity for public input is needed to gather additional information on the areas of renewable energy, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, lands with wilderness characteristics, land tenure adjustments (land disposals), Gold Butte National Monument, and socio-economics.
Opportunity to provide input is offered from now until February 2, 2018. During this period, the BLM will conduct public meetings to present information and provide for the opportunity for public input. The Revised Draft RMP/EIS will incorporate substantive comments received from the initial Draft RMP/EIS and information received from the public input period and meetings.
Public meetings are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 – Old Overton Gym, 179 S Andersen St, Overton, Nevada 89040
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 – Mesquite City Council Chambers, 10 E Mesquite Blvd, Mesquite, Nevada 89027
Thursday, January 11, 2018 – Santa Fe Station Hotel & Casino, 4949 N Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89130
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 – Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino, 681 S Hwy 160, Pahrump, Nevada 89048
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 – Heritage Park Senior Facility, 300 S. Racetrack Road, Henderson, Nevada 89015
Thursday, January 18, 2018 – Searchlight Community Center, 200 Michael Wendell Way, Searchlight, Nevada 89046
The public information meetings will be held from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. on the day of each scheduled meeting. The meetings will begin with an open house format where participants can ask questions and visit various resource stations, with formal presentations at 5:15 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. The public will be able to verbally
provide information beginning at 7 p.m. with a three-minute time limit. Court reporters will be available to record verbally-provided information.
In addition to the public meetings, through one of the methods listed below:
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Fax: (702) 515-5023
• Mail: BLM Southern Nevada District Office, Southern Nevada District RMP Revision, 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89130
Updated information on the Revised Draft RMP will be available at https://go.usa.gov/xnBqm.
In 2008, the BLM initiated a revision to the 1998 Las Vegas Resource Management Plan (RMP). A Draft RMP/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was released for public review in October 2014. Following the public comment period, work began on development of the Proposed RMP/Final EIS. While working on the Proposed RMP/Final EIS, new information gathered in response to public comments and concerns from cooperating agencies, as well as rapidly changing issues, contributed to a pause in development and initiated a BLM internal review in July 2016. As a result of the BLM internal review, the BLM determined that Revised Draft RMP/EIS should be developed.
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The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The agency’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. Diverse activities authorized on these lands generated $75 billion in sales of goods and services throughout the American economy in fiscal year 2016—more than any other agency in the Department of the Interior. These activities supported more than 372,000 jobs
Will BLM follow EO 13132 Federalism & NRS 241 Open Meeting Law be enforced this time. BLM has a history of No Complience. We need to hold their feet to the fire on these.
The last one of these I went to (Oct. 2014) the feds holding the so-called public input meeting “changed their minds” during the meeting and would not take ANY public comments. My question to the Buncha Lying Mercenaries know as the BLM is why they even bother to tell the public how much we will benefit from their unconstitutional, thus illegal, theft of public lands rightly belonging to the State of Nevada! Your days are numbered… President Trump has 3 more years to drain the swamp if he survives. If he does not, I guarantee there will come a bloody war fought by patriots who love this country and its Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of the United States. Frankly, I don’t see why I should waste my time catering to the plans the federal government has to steal even more of our prescious public lands.