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PPLAC backup for item #13, 10/08/2024 NYE COUNTY AGENDA INFORMATION FORM Action Presentation Presentation & Action Department: Agenda Date: Category: Regular Agenda Item Contact: Robert Adams, PPLAC Secretary Phone: [PHONE REDACTED] Continued from meeting of: PPLAC 09/10/24 meeting Return to: Location: Phone: Action requested: (Include what, with whom, when, where, why, how much and terms) To preserve the rural quality of life of Pahrump citizens and visitors, the Pahrump Public Land Advisory Committee asks rezoning of Nye County owned APN 045-411-82 and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) managed APNs: 045-411-17, 045-641-01, 045-651-01, 045-661-01, 045-481-03, 047-101-01 as OPEN SPACE per NCC 3.12.010.B.2. Complete description of requested action: (Include, if applicable, background, impact, long-term commitment, existing county policy, future goals, obtained by competitive bid, accountability measures) Following discussion and deliberation of item #12 at PPLAC’s 09/10/24 meeting, Jim Hannah moved to establish a recreation management area starting with recommendation of rezoning the noted parcels as OPEN SPACE. 2nd by Mike Zaman. All voted yes. Any information provided after the agenda is published or during the meeting of the Commissioners will require you to provide 20 copies: one for each Commissioner, one for the Clerk, one for the District Attorney, one for the Public and two for the County Manager. Contracts or documents requiring signature must be submitted with three original copies. Expenditure Impact by FY(s): (Provide detail on Financial Form) No financial impact Routing & Approval (Sign & Date) 1. Dept Date 6. Date 2. Date 7. HR Date 3. Date 8. Legal Date 4. Date 9. Finance Date 5. Date 10. County Manager Place on Agenda Date Board of County Commissioners Action Approved Disapproved Amended as follows: Clerk of the Board Date AGENDA FINANCIAL FORM ---PAGE BREAK--- PPLAC backup for item #13, 10/08/2024 Agenda Item No.: 1. Department Name: 2. Financial Contact Person: Tammy Otero Direct Phone 482-8107 3. Personnel Contact Person Direct Phone 4. Was the Budget Director consulted during the completion of this form (Y or N 5. Does this item require a budget adjustment to be made (Y or 6. Account Number Data: (Complete for all revenue and expenditure lines and for all fiscal years that are impacted. Budgeted: Y=Yes, N=No, A=Absorbed in budget (state how under “Comments” section below.) FY Budgeted Fund Dept # Function Object $ Amount 7. Comments: Completed by: Date: Signature ---PAGE BREAK--- PPLAC backup for item #13, 10/08/2024 The Red Star is the TH (Trailhead) location (APN 045-411-82). Blue shaded area is recommended recreation area. APN 045-411-17, 045-641-01, 045-651-01, 045-661-01, 045-481-03, 047-101- 01. Bureau of Land Management shown as the listed owner. From Megan Labadie, Nye County Director of Natural Resources and Federal Facilities: The statewide RMP isn’t even scheduled to begin prior to the landscape level planning documents BLM is currently producing. The greater-sage grouse EIS and Utility-scale solar programmatic EIS (I think there’s also another one out there) take precedence over the RMP. I confirmed with NACO yesterday that the RMP does not currently have any funding. Originally, the statewide RMP was scheduled to be finalized in 2025. That was in 2021. So far, the only thing BLM has accomplished with the RMP is a statewide MOU that Cooperating Agencies and the BLM worked on collaboratively. It is in BLM review now although it was in its final collaborative draft months ago. We don’t necessarily have to wait for the update – we could request an SRMA designation through an amendment. Either way, we’re looking at a very process. PPLAC backup for item #13, 10/08/2024 ---PAGE BREAK--- PPLAC backup for item #13, 10/08/2024 In that vein, is the Copper Rays solar project within the trail area? If so, BLM will prioritize the application which will affect any future SRMA designation. Once a solar facility is sited on public land, it is unlikely that the BLM would designate the same area as an SRMA. They may suggest that we develop an Extensive Recreation Management Area (ERMA), where those multiple uses are more management friendly. I understand this is, in part, a race to designate those trails before any solar siting occurs. But if a solar facility is already in the NEPA process (or possibly even in the process of an application review), BLM will still prioritize the solar siting due to Biden Administrative energy goals and initiatives.