Comprehensive Conservation Plans (CCP) provide long-term guidance for management decisions, sets goals, objectives and strategies needed to accomplish Refuge purposes and identifies the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's best estimate of future needs.

Seney National Wildlife Refuge's CCP was completed in February 2009 after a three-year planning process. The CCP guides the management policies on the Refuge for the next 15 years to ensure the established purposes and missions of the Refuge and National Wildlife Refuge System are fulfilled. 

National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) Improvement Act of 1997: The NWRS Improvement Act defines a unifying mission for all refuges, including a process for determining compatible uses on refuges, and requiring that each refuge be managed according to a CCP. The NWRS Improvement  Act expressly states that wildlife conservation is the priority of System lands and that the Secretary shall ensure that the biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health of refuge lands are maintained. Each refuge must be managed to fulfill the specific purposes for which the refuge was established and the Refuge System mission. The mission of the NWRS is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management and were appropriate, restoration of fish, wildlife and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans.