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EMD-81-53 1 (1981-06-05)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


Minerals Management At The

Department Of The Interior Needs

Coordination And Organization


In its work on the importance of materials
availability, GAO is conducting a continuing
evaluation of the Federal policymaking process
for meeting industrial and strategic materials
requirements. An important element of that
process is minerals management on Federal
lands.

GAO found that the Department of the Inte-
rior lacks a coherent minerals management pol-
icymaking process, which can result in an im-
balanced consideration of 'mineral resource
management. Decisionmaking is fragmented
among surface management agencies, without
a requirement for consistent or cumulative
evaluation of implications for domestic miner-
al policy.
Therefore, to provide balance between policies
for mineral exploration and development and
other, more explicitly stated policy objectives,
GAO is recommending that the Secretary of
the Interior develop a minerals management
program plan. Setting fundamental objectives
for which mineral resources will be managed
should be a first step.






                ~EMD4s-53



                1cc0vV~tJUNE 6. 1951

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