Relationship of the Resource Management Plan to BLM Policies, Program, and Other Plans

The BLM in Oregon developed five other Resource Management Plans (Medford, Klamath Falls, Coos Bay, Eugene, Salem) concurrently with development of the Roseburg District Resource Management Plan. The six Resource Management Plans together cover all BLM-administered lands in western Oregon. Some lands administered by the Eugene District to the north and the Medford District to the south and Coos Bay District to the west directly adjoin lands being addressed in the Roseburg plan. The districts cooperate in the management of these lands.

The Draft RMP/EIS was supplemented by the SEIS. The SEIS ROD, signed jointly by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, requires the Bureau to incorporate in its RMPs for western Oregon the land use allocations and standards and guidelines in that decision. The Resource Management Plan is intended to be consistent with the SEIS ROD; any apparent inconsistencies are oversights or misinterpretations of SEIS ROD language. This RMP incorporates the analysis in that Final SEIS.

The Resource Management Plan incorporates the following records of decision by reference:

-Northwest Area Noxious Weed Control Program.

-Western Oregon Program - Management of Competing Vegetation.

-Pacific Yew management program.

Any finding made in this record of decision that certain river segments studied herein are suitable for designation under the Wild and Scenic Rivers act, will be a preliminary administrative finding. It will receive further review and possible modification by the Director, BLM; Secretary of the Interior; or the President of the United States. To facilitate that review, after completion of this RMP and its record of decision, the BLM may elect or be required to prepare a study report to support recommendations to Congress for designation of specific rivers or river segments. Final decisions have been reserved by Congress unless the Governor nominates a river to the Secretary of the Interior, who may then decide to designate it.

The North Umpqua Wild and Scenic River Plan was completed in July 1992 to respond to a specific Congressional mandate which designated the North Umpqua River a recreational river under the National Wild & Scenic River System. The plan developed will not be changed by the Resource Management Plan.