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Show so fully that there will be a complete understanding of it. Comment.-This will permit the Commission to make its decisions in the context of what is the maximum benefit for the general public against the set of criteria adopted by the Commission. 2. With respect to each field of study, study plans must be prepared so that, as a minimum, the Commission will be provided with a statement of: a. The statutes in effect; b. Interpretations of such statutes reflected in regulations and judicial or administrative opinions; and c. Agency practices under such statutes and regulations as reflected in agency manuals or directives. Comment.-Studies must include a review of agency procedures relating to (1) the extent to which effective citizen participation is allowed in the initial decision-making process, and (2) procedures for judicial and administrative hearings and appeals with respect to decisions adversely affecting particular persons. B. FIELDS OF STUDY The public lands and their products are viewed as serving some purpose for the public good. The Commission's study program is, therefore, structured around: 1. Commodities (Includes all land uses.) a. Timber and other non-forage vegetation. b. Forage and browse. (Includes all vegetation used for animal feed.) c. Energy fuels. (Includes oil, gas, coal, uranium, oil shale, bitumen, tar sands, geothermal steam.) d. Non-fuel minerals. e. Water. (While confined to water originating on or flowing across public lands concerning which the Commission is required to make recommendations, it will include use, manipulation, and appropriation of water for all purposes.) f. Intensive agriculture. (Includes all non-grazing agriculture, e.g., homesteading, irrigation development, use of arid and semi-arid lands, etc.) g. Wildlife production and harvesting, h. Fish production and harvesting. i. Outdoor recreation. (Includes both (1) intensive uses requiring facilities or major development, including camping, picnicking, ski tows, resort development, etc.; and (2) passive use such as preservation attended by little or no development, including wilderness and primitive areas.) j. Occupancy of land. (Includes military and 314 scientific use, disposal of land or interests in land for rights-of-way, residential, industrial, and commercial development, as well as incidental uses such as trailer courts, billboards, and road signs.) 2. Intergovernmental transfers and transactions. (Encompasses land grants to states and all the related policy, including uses to which land grants may be devoted; in-lieu taxes and revenue-sharing; Federal-state-local interrelationships affected by or affecting public lands.) 3. Regional and local lands use and patterns of growth. (Includes joint land-use planning; the place of public lands and their use in regional and local development and the use of space.) 4. Governmental control and administration. a. Extent of need for Federal or state legislative jurisdiction. b. Organizational structure necessary to manage the lands. (Includes, in addition to administrative structure, investment and budgetary practices and policies, personnel and manpower policy, delegations of authority, and division or joint jurisdiction (Federal agency or otherwise) over specific lands or aspects of administration.) c. Procedures to permit citizen participation in initial decision-making. (Includes the advisory board systems, announcements of proposed actions, and procedures, for hearings on proposed actions.) d. Procedures to permit appeal from initial decisions. (Includes administrative as well as judicial remedies.) e. Policies and practices in support of governmental activities or programs. (Includes acquisition of land or interests in land by exchange or otherwise, withdrawals and reservations, surveys, management guidelines to permit use of land to provide the maximum benefit for the general public, and classification of lands.) 5. Historical development. C. CRITERIA TO JUDGE THE FACTS If our study program is to provide the means whereby the Commission can make judgments on how to "provide the maximum benefit for the general public," it is necessary to establish criteria as to what constitutes the maximum benefit for the general public. This study will be initiated during Phase 1 of the study program. Comment.-(1) It is not necessary that these criteria be established in advance, and it might even be prejudicial if this were done. The criteria, therefore, will be developed in a separate study initiated during Phase 1 of the Commission's operations. |