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handle is hein.crs/govelzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ______ '.Research Service Federal Land Management: When Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Diverge June 21, 2023 The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) has provided the framework for federal management of public lands since 1976. Among other things, FLPMA instructs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to manage public lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield. This Legal Sidebar explains a potential change that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the Department of the Interior tasked with management of federal lands, has proposed in how it implements the dual mandate of multiple use/sustained yield on federal lands. The Supreme Court has described multiple use management as a deceptively simple term that describes the enormously complicated task of striking a balance among the many competing uses to which land can be put. Because FLPMA includes more than 200 million acres in its definition of public lands, many parties have significant interests in the interpretation and application of this short phrase multiple use and sustained yield. Understanding the meaning of that phrase starts with FLPMA itself. The statute envisions management that balances the use of the resources of public lands with the preservation of those resources for future generations. It defines sustained yield as the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the public lands consistent with multiple use. FLMPA offers a more detailed definition of multiple use that obliges BLM to manage the lands under its purview so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people, allowing for periodic adjustments to conform to changing needs and conditions and taking into account the long-term needs of future generations for renewable and nonrenewable resources, including, but not limited to, recreation, range, timber, minerals, watershed, wildlife and fish, and natural scenic, scientific and historical values. It also requires harmonious and coordinated management of the various resources without permanent impairment of the productivity of the land and the quality of the environment with consideration being given to the relative values of the resources and not necessarily to the combination of uses that will give the greatest economic return or the greatest unit output. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10982 CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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