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GAO-01-1114R 1 (2001-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamvn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 August 31, 2001 The Honorable Larry Craig Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Forests and Public Lands Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate The Honorable Scott McInnis Chairman, Subcommittee on Forests & Forest Health Committee on Resources House of Representatives Subject: Forest Service: Appeals and Litigation of Fuel Reduction Projects The nation's forests have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half. Human activities, especially the federal government's decades-old practice of suppressing all wildland fires, have resulted in the dangerous accumulation of hazardous fuel on federal lands. To help address this problem, the Congress appropriated over $205 million to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for fiscal year 2001 to be used to reduce these accumulated fuels. In an effort to put as much of these newly appropriated monies on-the-ground as quickly as possible in fiscal year 2001, the Forest Service identified and funded those hazardous fuel reduction projects for which it had completed the necessary environmental analyses. Concerned that appeals and litigation were delaying the implementation of these projects, you asked us to identify (1) the number of hazardous fuel reduction projects for which the Forest Service had completed the necessary environmental analyses and funded implementation in fiscal year 2001, (2) the number of these projects that had been appealed or litigated, and (3) who had appealed or litigated the project decisions. To obtain the information, we asked officials in the Forest Service's headquarters and in each of the agency's nine regional offices to provide us with the number of hazardous fuel reduction projects, by national forest, that were identified for implementation in fiscal year 2001. We also asked them to provide the name of any project that had been appealed or litigated, the national forest where the project was located, the names of appellants or litigants, and the project's status. GAO-01-1114R Fuel Reduction Projects

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