Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Cottonwood Field Office Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, and Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Cottonwood Field Office Resource Management Plan

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD)/Approved Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Cottonwood Field Office located in northern Idaho. The Idaho State Director signed the ROD on December 21, 2009, excluding decisions regarding domestic sheep and goat grazing to be addressed in a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The signed ROD constitutes the final decision of the BLM for all other management direction and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately. The BLM Cottonwood Field Office, Cottonwood, Idaho, intends to prepare a Supplemental EIS for the Cottonwood RMP to analyze the impacts of domestic sheep and goat grazing in four allotments that overlap or occur in the vicinity of bighorn sheep habitat. These four allotments are located along the Salmon River, east of Riggins, Idaho, in Idaho County. The BLM will provide opportunities for public participation upon publication of the Draft Supplemental EIS.