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Article: BLM, Forest Service hold off on land swap moves.
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- February 20, 1985
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WASHINGTON -- Two Key figures in the proposed management swap of 34 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands pledged Tuesday to do nothing "irreversible" until Congress gives its approval of the plan.
The pledges were given by Forest Service Chief R. Max Peterson and BLM Director Robert Burford at a joint hearing of the House Interior Committee's Public Lands and General Oversight subcommittees.
But Peterson said the agencies would proceed with "double hatting" some employees of the Forest Service and the BLM so that they would be working part-time for both agencies, a procedure he said could be carried out without ...