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GAO-02-920R 1 (2002-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ G Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 July 9, 2002 The Honorable Scott McInnis Chairman, Subcommittee on Forests & Forest Health Committee on Resources House of Representatives Subject: Forest Service: Scope and Methodology Used to Determine Number of Appeals and Legal Challenges of Fiscal Year 2001 Fuel Reduction Projects Dear Mr. Chairman: Last summer, on the basis of your Subcommittee's request, we reviewed certain issues related to efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to reduce accumulated hazardous forest fuels. At that time, the Congress had appropriated more than $205 million to the Forest Service for fiscal year 2001 to be used to reduce these accumulated fuels. In an effort to put as much of these newly appropriated monies on the ground as quickly as possible in fiscal year 2001, the Forest Service identified and funded those hazardous fuel reduction projects for which it had completed the necessary environmental analyses. Concerned that appeals and litigation were delaying the implementation of these projects, your Subcommittee asked us to identify (1) the number of hazardous forest fuel reduction projects for which the Forest Service had completed the necessary environmental analyses and funded implementation in fiscal year 2001, (2) the number of these projects that had been appealed or litigated, and (3) who had appealed or litigated the project decisions. We provided your Subcommittee with a report transmitting this information.' In summary, we reported that as of July 18, 2001, the Forest Service had completed the necessary environmental analyses to implement 1,671 hazardous fuel reduction projects in fiscal year 2001. Of those projects, subsequently 20 (about I percent) had been appealed, and none had been litigated. Appellants included environmental groups, such as the Forest Conservation Council, and individuals. 'U.S. General Accounting Office, Forest Service: Appeals and Litigation of Fuel Reduction Projects, GAO-01-1114R (Washington, D.C.: Aug. 31, 2001). GAO-02-920R Fuel Reduction Projects

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