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B-125053 1 (1973-10-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o iC ,V iP' I I I.ILAh m b-f'€ .'e' - r , RES1WTwicrmn Not to 6.hetest4 ** , t, -g~ Aocontn g Offke,,xcopt on tho btsls of sps.I.c upprovi.a- bytihe Office of a,eailallve Liaison, a rapord of which litk 1- by tte D utlo Soctom Publicatons Bra ek, OAS (%A rae COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES %A__. WASHINGTON, D.C. R0W40 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 9) /j 3(5 001 0 1973 t-rFltlrl