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B-329065 1 (2017-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtzi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 B-329065 November 15, 2017 The Honorable Lisa Murkowski United States Senate Subject: Eastern Interior Resource Management Plan This is a response to your letter requesting our opinion whether the Eastern Interior Resource Management Plan (Eastern Interior Plan), issued on December 30, 2016 by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior, is a rule under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The Eastern Interior Plan is comprised of the Resource Management Plans (RMP) for four areas in Alaska: the Draanjik Planning Area, the Fortymile Planning Area, the Steese Planning Area, and the White Mountains Planning Area. You also asked us to decide whether these four underlying RMPs are rules for CRA purposes. For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that the Eastern Interior Plan and the four RMP's are rules under CRA.1 BACKGROUND The Resource Management Plan Process The Eastern Interior Plan was prepared in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA).2 The FLPMA, as amended, requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to develop, maintain, and, when appropriate, revise land use plans which provide by tracts or areas for the use of the public 1 Our practice when rendering opinions is to contact the relevant agency to obtain their legal views on the subject of the request. GAO, Procedures and Practices for Legal Decisions and Opinions, GAO-06-1064SP (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 2006) available at http ilwww. /roducts/GAO-06-1064SP. We contacted the Department of the Interior but it informed us that it could not provide us with their views due to the absence of a more complete leadership team. Letter from Interior to Assistant General Counsel, GAO, July 14, 2017. 2 Pub. L. No. 94-579, 90 Stat. 2743 (Oct. 21, 1976), codified at 43 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq. (2012).

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