California Desert Conservation Area Plan Consolidation

Project Specifications

Client: Bureau of Land Management

Location: San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern, Inyo, and Mono Counties

Services: Planning & Public Policy, Geospatial Sciences & Data Analysis

This project completed a plan consolidation effort that began in 2016 for the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan. The consolidation included all amendments to the CDCA Plan of 1980 as Amended (sans project-specific amendments) through the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area amendment of 2020. The Aspen Team supported the BLM with preparing and finalizing the following deliverables:

• The reader version of the consolidated CDCA Plan- A consolidated version that has been made easy to read and follow due to heavy writer/editor work of deleted, added, and moot plan elements.

• The red-line version of the consolidated CDCA Plan- A consolidated version that is strictly a red-line document. The red-line version serves as the legal version of the CDCA Plan as Amended.

• The consolidated project file (i.e., administrative record).

Detailed services provided:

• Incorporated an annotated history of the CDCA Plan and its amendments throughout the consolidated CDCA Plan elements.

• Created 37 new or revised figures utilizing updated ArcGIS data that were included in the consolidated CDCA Plan.

• Conducted a thorough review of the CDCA Plan elements to correct errors and finesse the language to ensure that the consolidated document is readable.

• Managed and organized the Administrative Record for the CDCA Plan consolidation containing 9,334 files.