Planning

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) ensures that the BLM (and other Federal Agencies) considers the impact of an action on the quality of the human environment before decisions are made and the action is taken. NEPA-related documents are required to concentrate on significant issues.

The NEPA process is intended to help public officials make better decisions based on an understanding of environmental consequences, and take actions that protect, restore, and enhance the quality of the human environment.

NEPA Document Search

The NEPA document library contains documents relevant to the BLM planning projects throughout Oregon and Washington.

Documents can be searched by fiscal year, district, program area, and document type via the NEPA Document Search form.

Ongoing Planning Efforts

Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline

The BLM is a Cooperating Agency on FERC's EIS for the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline. more >>

RMPs for Western Oregon

The BLM Oregon is initiating a resource management plan (RMP) revisions which will provide goals, objectives, and direction for the management of approximately 2.6 million acres of BLM-administered lands in western Oregon. The planning area consists of the Coos Bay, Eugene, Medford, Roseburg, and Salem Districts, as well as the Klamath Falls Resource Area of the Lakeview District. more >>

RMP Evaluation Report for Western Oregon Districts

The Resource Management Plan Evaluation Report for Western Oregon Districts covers the Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, Coos Bay and Medford districts as well as the Klamath Falls Resource Area in the Lakeview District. The six western Oregon BLM units manage these 2.5 million acres under the 1995 Western Oregon Resource Management Plans, and were last evaluated in 2004. The 2012 plan evaluation found a need for changes in the timber and wildlife programs and minor changes to other BLM-administered programs. The evaluation report indicates a plan revision is appropriate for BLM's western Oregon plans to comprehensively review the mix of resource uses and protections and adjust RMP objectives and associated land use allocations and management direction. more >>

John Day Basin Resource Management Plan

The Bureau of Land Management is developing a new Resource Management plan for lands managed by the BLM within the John Day Basin. This new plan will revise and consolidate three Resource Management Plans that provide current guidance within the John Day Basin: The Two Rivers Resource Management Plan (1986), the John Day Resource Management Plan (1985), and the Baker Resource Management Plan (1989). more >>

Baker Resource Management Plan

The Baker Resource Management Plan will provide a comprehensive framework for managing and allocating public land and resources in the Baker Resource Area for the next 10 or more years. The RMP willserve as a master plan from which future, more site-specific analysis and decisions will be made regarding allowable, conditional or prohibited uses and activities. more >>

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

This Land Use plan sets forth the final direction for managing the 52,947 acres of BLM lands in southwestern Oregon. The 2000 Presidential Proclamation reserved the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in recognition of its remarkable ecology and to protect a diverse range of biological, geological, aquatic, archeological, and historic objects. more >>

Oregon Vegetation Treatments EIS

On October 1, 2010, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon State Office released the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides on BLM Lands in Oregon Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). more >>

Existing Land Use Plans

• Baker Resource Management Plan (PDF)
• Burns Resource Management Plans
  • Andrews Resource Area
    Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan (PDF)
    Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan, Appendices A - O and Maps (PDF)
  • Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area
    Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan (PDF)
    Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan, Appendix P (PDF)
  • Three Rivers Resource Area
    Resource Management Plan, Volume 1 (PDF)
    Resource Management Plan, Volume 2 (PDF)
    Decision Record (PDF)
    Management Directives (PDF)
• Coos Bay Resource Management Plan
• Corp's Withdrawal Application Management Plan Amendment (PDF)
• Eugene District Resource Management Plan
• John Day River Management Plan (PDF)
• Klamath Falls Resource Area Resource Management Plan (PDF)
• Lakeview Resource Management Plan
• Medford RMP Record of Decision (PDF)
• Northeast Oregon Assembled Land Exchange ROD (PDF)
• Roseburg RMP Record of Decision (PDF)
• Salem District Resource Management Plan (PDF)
• Southeastern Oregon RMP and Record of Decision (PDF)
• Spokane Management Plan ROD Rangeland Program Summary (PDF)
• Spokane Resource Management Plan Amendment (PDF)
• Umpqua Land Exchange Project
• Vale Resource Management Plan (PDF)
• Wood River Wetlands Resource Management Plan (PDF)

Previous Planning Efforts

Western Oregon Plan Revision

On May 16, 2012, the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon (Pacific Rivers Council et al v. Shepard) vacated the 2008 Records of Decision/Resource Management Plans for western Oregon BLM districts and reinstated BLM's 1995 RODs/RMPs. As of May 16, 2012, the western Oregon Districts have reverted back to the 1995 ROD/RMP as the official land use plan of record.