Land Use Planning And Oil And Gas Leasing On Onshore Federal Lands

Download or read book Land Use Planning and Oil and Gas Leasing on Onshore Federal Lands written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the consideration of oil and gas leasing in the land use planning processes of the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. This volume was required by the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987. It identifies problems in land use planning that are caused by current leasing practices and the availability and reliability of information at the planning stage, and makes recommendations that address the interrelation between oil and gas leasing decisions and the land use planning process for federal lands.