SPRNCA RMP/EIS Grazing Lease Renewals FONSI, 12/21/22

Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the livestock grazing lease renewals included in the 2019 decision for the SPRNCA RMP/EIS. The FONSI was the result of a legal settlement in August 2022 between the BLM and Arizona conservation groups which required the BLM to take a closer look at the grazing lease renewals in the RMP. The FONSI stated the BLM’s review found there was no need to change their decision in the RMP to renew the grazing leases. On the same day they issued the FONSI, the BLM released proposed decisions and an environmental assessment (EA) to renew the leases, as part of a NEPA planning process they had initiated in April 2022.