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B-202612 1 (1981-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkad0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-202612 April 16, 1981 CEDl-125 The Honorable William V. Roth, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of March 12, 1981, reqUested our.[v7ews on S. 451, farmland Protection Policy Act, and any recommenda- tions we may have concerning possible committee action. The provisions of the subject bill should help mitigate losses of agricultural land caused by Federal programs. The bill is in consonance with the final report issued January 17, 1981, by the National Agriculture Lands Study Group, co-chaired by the Department of Agriculture and the Council on Environ- mental Quality, which made the following recommendations. The national interest in agricultural land should be articulated by a Presidential or by a Congressional statement of policy. The adoption of an agricultural land policy by each federal agency whose programs result in converting agricultural land to nonagricultural use should be required by an Executive Order or by Congressional action. In a report to the Congress (copy enclosed) entitled Pre- serving America's Farmland--A Goal the Federal Government Should Support, (CED-79-109, dated September 20, 1979, we stated as follows. We recommend that the Congress (1) formulate a national policy on protecting and retaining prime and other farm- land, (2) set a national goal as to the amount and class of farmland that should be preserved to meet current and future needs, (3) periodically assess whether the loss of L- 9l _73

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