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Show Council, and the Governors' Representatives with a guide to the planned activities of the Commission staff. The plan contains, first, a statement and discussion of the Commission's objective; second, a description of the methods of operation and general procedures to be followed by the Commission and its staff; and third, a general description of the study program and the way in which it will be organized. It does not contain a list of individual studies or specific issues that will be considered; the approach to these will, however, follow logically from the program. All studies will be based on the reasoning of, and follow the procedures indicated in, the program. The program provides a set of guidelines to be used by the staff to develop detailed study plans. All major studies of the Commission are visualized as being a part of this overall plan. The design and conduct of individual studies will be the work of the Legal and Resources Groups in their respective areas. Where appropriate, the two groups will act jointly on a single study with one being given primary responsibility. The results of the studies will be correlated by the third of the groups into which the professional staff is organized, i.e., the Evaluation Group. For the purposes of our program, the following definitions apply: Program: A comprehensive statement of the objective, functions, and operations of the Public Land Law Review Commission and its staff, including a listing of the major fields of study into which the overall program is divided. Unless specifically indicated, the sequence in which fields of study are listed does not indicate priority or relative importance. Study Program: An overall, broad outline indicating the scope of the studies to be accomplished. Field of Study: Subject matter that forms a logical segment within which several individual studies would be made. Profile: An analysis, which may be in narrative, outline, list, or graphic form. It shows the types of information necessary to consider in making a study, permit evaluation of past and 'present public policy, and permit recommendations to be made concerning future policy guidelines relative to a single subject. In addition, it will include, as a minimum (1) a summarization of study suggestions submitted to the Commission with regard to the subject; (2) a statement of types of background facts to be collected; (3) a summarization of the issues relating to the subject; (4) factors involved in the issues; (5) a statement of types of facts necessary to review in order to make recommendations concerning such issues; (6) the studies deemed necessary; and (7) recommendations on how such studies should best be accomplished. Study Plan: An outline, narrative, or graphic, setting forth the content required of an individual study, together with the establishment of procedures by which the study should be accomplished. Study: The activity or series of activities that result in a study report. Study Report: ' A document, prepared after a thorough examination and analysis of a subject, presenting in logical format and sequence, pertinent factors concerning the subject which may be a commodity, law, regulation, rule, practice, procedure, or groupings thereof, including, where appropriate, presentation of reasonable alternative actions for the future, with probable consequences of each but without incorporating conclusions or recommendations. Commodity: Any good or service, free or economic, tangible, or intangible, which is produced by, extractable from, or available from the use of, or represented by land, and has utility value. Budget: The application of costs in terms of dollars and manpower, supplies and equipment, required to execute the program or a segment of the program for a specified time period. PUBLIC LAND LAW REVIEW COMMISSION I. Objective The Commission's objective-its reason for being -is the central point in designing the overall program, or any portion of it, and determining staff operations which will best serve the Commission's needs in pursuing this objective. This objective is found in Public Law 88-606, hereinafter referred to as the Act, and is restated here for ready and constant reference: Report to the President and the Congress with recommendations of those actions, administrative or legislative, which should be taken to assure 'that the public lands of the United States shall be (a) retained and managed or 309 |