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B-125053 1 (1973-10-30)

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1-125053


The Honorable Ilenry S, Reuse, Chairman
Subcommittee on Conservation and
  Natural Resources
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Chairman:
      In accordance with your request of November 22, 1972,
and subsaquent agr ments with )our office, we are reporting
on our followup oftLctions taken to implement th9tecommenda-
tion from o-utnl966.reporf to the Congress on the need to re-
solve differences in proCedures used by Federal timber manage-
ment agencies in appraising timber offered for sale (B-125053,
Dec. 29, 1966),

     We made our inquiries at the Offi.e of Management and
Budget (OMB); the headquarters and Pacific Northwest regional
office of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and
the headquarters and Portland, Oregon, Service Center of the
Bureau of Land Management (BLI), Department of the Interior,
Although our 1966 report also covered Interior's Bureau of
Indian Affairs, we limited our followup to the Forest Service
and BLM because their timber management programs are more com-
parable,

     The Forest Service and BUd have resolved some differences
in their,appraisal procedures but they have not. resolved others
even though the Congress stated in 1956 that uniform procedures
were to be established and OMB, the Forest Service, and BLM
had expended considerable efforts since then toward establish-
ing greater uniformity, Also, the agencies have underway a
Joint study to improve and simplify appraisal procedures. Al-
though this study could lead to greater uniformity, it is not
primarily directed at establishing uniform procedures,


     On the basis of the results of the
and the lack of specific current efforts
procedures, we believe it unlikely that
solve the remaining differences in their
in the near future,


agencies' past efforts
to establish uniform
the agencies will re-
appraisal procedures


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