Draft NRMP plan released

The Board Carbon County Commissioners, along with a steering committee, has completed a draft Natural Resource Management Plan (NRMP).

The County developed this Plan as a tool which allows a local government to have a substantive impact on federal decisions, plans, policies, and programs.

Federal agencies consideration of a local natural resource management plan, or resource plan, can play a key role in the success of a local government engaging as a cooperative agency or with consistency review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), coordination under the Federal Lands Policy...