Planning Schedule

1) Initiate planning effort/scoping

Publish Notice of Intent, February 29, 2008

Public scoping meetings, April – June 2008

Scoping period ended, August 15, 2008

Publish scoping report, December 2008

2) Inventory and data collection

Gather and analyze new data, May 2007 – September 2008

Geographic Information Systems data collection and cleanup, October 2007 – August 2009

3) Formulate alternatives

Formulate alternatives, November 2008 – August 2009 

4) Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement

Write Draft RMP/EIS, 2009

Publish Notice of Availability for Draft RMP/EIS in Federal Register, TBD

Public review of Draft RMP/EIS, early 2010

Analyze and prepare response to pubic comments, 2010

  5) Proposed Resource Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement

Publish Notice of Availability for Proposed RMP/Final EIS, 2010

Initiate Governor's consistency review, 2010

30-day protest period, 2010 

  6) Records of Decision and Approved RMP

Issue Records of Decision, 2011