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RCED-84-108 1 (1984-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaberd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Chairman, Subcommittee On Oversight And Investigations, House Committee On Energy And Commerce OF THE UN TED STATES Economic Uses Of The National Wildlife Refuge System Unlikely To Increase Significantly Approximately 89 million acres of land are part of the National Wildlife Refuge System This report answers a series of questions from the Chairman concerning the Department of the Interior's plans to expand economic and public use of wildlife refuges It discusses the Department's proposals to increase the use of these lands--especially proposals to open certain refuge lands to oil and gas leasing--the potential impacts and conflicts from such uses, and certain practices involving access to wildlife refuges The administration has also proposed expanding the use of these lands for timber harvesting, cattle grazing, trapping, hunting, and other activi- ties GAO found that the expansion levels esti- mated by the Department are unlikely to be fully realized for several reasons relating to demand for these products and activities, other refuge priorities, and the personnel resources available to implement an expansion policy The report makes recommendations to the Secre- tary of the Interior to improve the management of the refuge system, particularly oversight of refuge oil and gas operations C UA l~cou$<&GAO/RCED-84-1 08 -lee S, %JUNE 15, 1984

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