This position will support bureau of land management paria river district (BLM PRD) in its efforts to respond and comply with proclamation 10286

This cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Utah Region provides $146,908 to support experienced services under the Experienced Services Program (ESP) CFDA 15.016. The funding will support the Bureau of Land Management Paria River District in complying with Proclamation 10286 which restored over 800,000 acres to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Products and services include leading National Environmental Policy Act compliance for high priority backlogged recreation development and right-of-way projects. Specifically, the awardee will develop a programmatic environmental assessment for recreation facilities and a NEPA analysis for a land acquisition. The four-year award issued on July 29, 2022 will also support visitor services and planning needs resulting from increased visitation to the restored national monument area.

This proclamation restored the boundaries of the grand staircase-escalante national monument (gesnm) to include more than 800,000 acres of land and identified a number of monument objects for protection, thus prioritizing resource management planning for the restored gsenm over all other planning within the BLM PRD.work supporting BLM's need to meet recreation and visitor service needs resulting from increased visitation and area growth, including overall oversight/management of numerous projects mainly national environmental policy act (nepa) process for projects.nepa/planning for high priority/backlogged projects includes planning, leading, and coordinating the development of the documents from project initiation to decision (writing, reviewing, categorical exclusions, determination of nepa adequacy, environmental assessments, finding of no significant impacts, and decision records)1. Nepa for recreation developments and facilities: development of a large scale programmatic environmental assessment for the PRD that would address a backlog of recreation facilities and developments such as, trail heads, parking areas, and bathrooms- this would also provide a document that can be used to tier from for future needs for facilities and developments.2. Nepa for reality actions: development of nepa documents in response to row applications/amendments, mostly for title v rows and road improvements/upgrades. Additionally, BLM utah received funds for the cottonwood creek land acquisition, this will be a utah state office priority and will require nepa.