Development and Maintenance of the Implementation Agreement. The agreement for implementation of the SNPLMA was first developed in 1999 by a team of representatives from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service (NPS) in the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the Department of Agriculture. The purpose of the agreement was to address how the Federal agencies would work together to implement the portions of SNPLMA that require coordination within the Department of the Interior and between the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. The team also addressed the requirements related to coordination and consultation with the State of Nevada, local governments, and interested parties. The team assembled a document, entitled The Federal Partners Charter, which outlined a collaborative process for developing a recommendation for the Secretary of the Interior regarding the SNPLMA Special Account expenditures. The Federal Partners Charter was executed to produce the Round 1 Recommendation for Expenditures from the SNPLMA Special Account. The lessons learned in executing the process proved valuable in modifying certain terms of the Charter in order to make the process more efficient and effective. A continuous improvement approach was adopted, and the Charter, renamed The Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) Implementation Agreement, was signed in May 2000. Changes to the Implementation Agreement (IA) over the years reflect lessons learned for implementation, modifications to the Act that have expanded the SNPLMA program to include additional eligible entities and funding/project categories, opinions provided by the Department of the Interior Office of the Solicitor, direction and guidance resulting from audits, and changing circumstances due to the growth of the program. A history of the revisions can be found in Appendix P. This IA is expected to continue to evolve during the life of SNPLMA. Maintenance of the IA is the responsibility of the Partners Working Group (PWG). BLM will prepare draft revisions based on processes put into place by decision memorandums approved by the Executive Committee (EC) since the previous version was approved; SNPLMA Division recommendations; and comments and suggestions from Federal managers, non-Federal eligible entities, and PWG recommendations. The BLM will distribute the draft revisions for review and comment by eligible entities and others involved in implementation of...
