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RCED-85-25 1 (1985-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabezs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORT BY THE U. S. General Accounting Office The Bureau Of Reclamation Could Identify More Unneeded Land A January 1983 Bureau of Reclamation report identified about 1.3 million acres of land as unneeded for project purposes. That report, however, did not include 472,600 acres which GAO subsequently identified as unneeded. This occurred primarily because Reclamation's annual property reviews did not include detailed reviews of specific parcels of land and it had not completed re- viewing the need for all public domain land under its jurisdiction. Recognizing the need to improve its land management program, Reclamation has been imple- menting a land-use inventory and automated real prop- erty asset management system. This could help Reclamation develop a comprehensive and accurate inventory of land no longer needed for project purposes. Normally, proceeds from the sale of unneeded land are used to reduce the financial obligations of irrigation districts. In this respect, three irrigation districts at the Columbia Basin Project in Washington could receive reductions in their repayment obligations of about $39 million if 73,000 acres of unneeded land are sold. The land was purchased by the federal government in the early 1 940's for other than water project purposes. GAO recommends that Reclamation consider whether the federal government's interests in this land outweigh the irrigation districts' asserted contractual, reliance, and equitable interests and refrain from selling additional settlement land until a determination is reached. CU 7 GAO/RCED-85-25 0 APRIL 12. 1985

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