Trump administration wants to trim BLM process behind Rock Springs Resource Management Plan

• ‘The current planning process is too slow, too complicated and weighed down by outdated requirements,’ BLM Director Steve Pearce said. By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.com The Department of the Interior is proposing updates to the regulations that govern Bureau of Land Management land-use planning, three years after a management planning process for 3.6 million acres of public land in southwestern Wyoming fueled a political firestorm. The proposals aim to update a decades-old set of regulations by cutting unnecessary red tape, improving coordination with state and local governments and hastening decision-making for public lands across the country, according to an announcement from the department. “The current planning process is too slow, too complicated and weighed down by outdated requirements,” BLM Director Steve Pearce said in the announcement.

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