Public Lands

Limited Progress in Resource Management Planning Gao ID: RCED-90-225 September 27, 1990

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) progress in developing and implementing land-use plans and in designating areas of critical environmental concern.

GAO found that: (1) BLM completed only 63 of the 136 legislatively required resource management plans for public lands and projected that it would complete all of them by 1997; (2) unless BLM converted the goals and decisions of the completed plans into actions, the plans were of limited practical value; (3) the plans lacked the specific details needed to implement goals, and BLM did not develop, schedule, track, or link budgetary resources to plan decisions or activities; and (4) BLM designations of areas of critical environmental concern were inconsistent and substantially dependent on the views of field managers.

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