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Recommendations for Executive Action Agency Comments We are making five recommendations. To improve the implementation of the FLTFA mandate to raise funds to purchase inholdings, we recommend that the Secretary of the Interior direct the Director of BLM to develop goals for land sales, and develop a strategy for implementing these goals during the last 3 years of the program. To enhance the departments’ compliance with the act, we recommend that the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior improve the procedure in place to identify and set priorities for acquiring inholdings. To enhance the departments’ compliance with the act, we recommend that the Secretary of the Interior direct the Director of BLM to establish a procedure to track the percentage of revenue spent on inholdings and on adjacent land. To fully implement the National Memorandum of Understanding, we recommend that the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior establish a procedure to track the fund allocations for land acquisitions by agency as provided in the MOU. The Department of the Interior provided written comments on a draft of this report. The department generally concurred with our report’s findings and recommendations, stating that it will implement all of the recommendations. These comments are presented in appendix IV of this report. In addition, Interior and the Department of Agriculture provided technical comments on the draft report, which we have incorporated as appropriate. We are sending copies of this report to the Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of Agriculture; the Directors of BLM, the Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service; and the Chief of the Forest Service; and other interested parties. We will also make copies available to others upon request. In addition, the report will be available at no charge on the GAO Web site at http://www.gao.gov. Page 47 GAO-08-196 Federal Land Management
If you or your staff have questions about this report, please contact me at (202) 512-3841 or nazzaror@gao.gov. Contact points for our Offices of Congressional Relations and Public Affairs may be found on the last page of this report. Key contributors to this report are listed in appendix V. Robin M. Nazzaro Director, Natural Resources and Environment Page 48 GAO-08-196 Federal Land Management
Page 1 and 2: GAO February 2008 GAO-08-196 United
Page 3 and 4: Contents Letter 1 Results in Brief
Page 5 and 6: Abbreviations BLM Bureau of Land Ma
Page 7 and 8: providing security, and protecting
Page 9 and 10: evenue to acquire specific parcels
Page 11 and 12: BLM faces several challenges to rai
Page 13 and 14: Background Federal Land Sales Autho
Page 15 and 16: Federal Land Acquisition Funding ti
Page 17 and 18: FLTFA Requirements on Use of Revenu
Page 19 and 20: BLM Has Raised Most FLTFA Revenue f
Page 21 and 22: Figure 3: FLTFA Revenue by Fiscal Y
Page 23 and 24: BLM Faces Several Challenges to Fut
Page 25 and 26: Most BLM States Have Planned FLTFA
Page 27 and 28: Figure 5: BLM “North Fork” 167-
Page 29 and 30: FLTFA’s Restriction on Land Avail
Page 31 and 32: Agencies Have Purchased Few Parcels
Page 33 and 34: Table 4: Status of FLTFA Land Acqui
Page 35 and 36: Figure 7: Part of an Inholding in t
Page 37 and 38: Agency State Federally designated a
Page 39 and 40: The nomination that was withdrawn b
Page 41 and 42: State-Level Process Has Not Yet Res
Page 43 and 44: BLM Reports Spending $3.2 Million o
Page 45 and 46: Agencies Face Challenges in Complet
Page 47 and 48: Compliance with Specific Provisions
Page 49 and 50: The Agencies Have Yet to Establish
Page 51: Matters for Congressional Considera
Page 55 and 56: Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and
Page 57 and 58: Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and
Page 59 and 60: Appendix II: Completed FLTFA Land S
Page 69 and 70: Appendix III: Detailed Information
Page 71 and 72: Appendix III: Detailed Information
Page 73 and 74: Appendix IV: Comments from the Depa
Page 75 and 76: Appendix V: GAO Contact and Staff A

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