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CED-80-14 1 (1979-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabacl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RIS-Tr,.T1D -Not to be rleased outside the GenerA 'rA ce except -n te bitsts of spec~ific appivvi REPORT BY THE RELEASED Comptroller General OF THE UNITED STATES The Federal Drive To Acquire Private Lands Should Be Reassessed The Federal Government owns over one-third of all U.S. land with authorization to acquire up to $4 billion of private land during the next 11 years. The National Park, Forest, and Fish and Wildlife Services had been following a general practice of acquiring as much private land as possible regardless of need, alternative land control methods, and impacts on private landowners. GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior --jointly establish a policy on when lands should be purchased or when other protection alternatives, such as easements, zoning, and Federal con- trols, should be used; --critically evaluate the need to pur- chase additional lands in existing projects; and --prepare plans identifying lands needed to achieve project purposes and ob- jectives at every new project before acquiring land. GAO believes the Congress should oversee the implementation of these recommen- dations. This review was made at the request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks and Insular Affairs, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. .4D s7 O U- 0 11o 111256 ///J,56 az'67 ( CED-80-14 DECEMBER 14, 1979 111,.X'

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