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Land Management Agencies: Information on Selected Administrative Policies and Practices

RCED-97-40 Published: Feb 11, 1997. Publicly Released: Feb 20, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the National Park Service's, Fish and Wildlife Service's, Bureau of Land Management's, and Forest Service's administrative functions, focusing on the: (1) reasons for and the costs of field-unit managers' geographic relocations; (2) authorization for and the quantity and condition of employees' rental housing; (3) requirements for providing employees' uniforms and the expenditures for them; (4) authorizations for employees' home-to-work travel in their agency's vehicles; and (5) processes by which the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service issue grazing permits and the similarities and differences between the two agencies' grazing programs.

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Budget authorityClothing allowancesEmployee transfersFederal employeesFederal property managementLicensesRental housingTravelUniformsLand management