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school sites, several commualty parks and rural laadflll sites. Under 

 existing applications for a Recreation and Public Purposes Act lease are such 

 proposals as a private youth camp, a state highway maintenance station, a 

 county sewage treatment facility, a jail, fire station and several school 

 sites. Currently the Forest Service has no authority to administer this 

 program to provide these services. S. 59 does not provide such authority. 

 The Administration's nationwide proposal does provide authority for these 

 activities. 



Also S. 59 makes no provision for continuity of the land sale procedures, or 

 for the treatment of pending applications for sales to local governments and 

 private citizens. There are existing proposals for sales which would exceed 

 the present ability of the Forest Service to process and administer under the 

 only authority to sell that they have — the Act of January 22, 1983, that is 

 popularly known as the Small Tracts Act. The Nationwide Interchange proposal 

 provides for continuity in sales actions. It also provides for continuity of 

 uses and authority for and protection of existing permits. If S. 59 is 

 enacted, we suggest that provisions similar to these be included. 



S. 59 is unclear on a variety of other matters, such as provisions for 

 adopting the other agency's regulations, issuing joint regulations on similar 

 programs administered by both Forest Service and BLM, title record 

 responsibilities or severability of any provision within the Act. These 

 activities are addressed in the nationwide proposal. 



The adverse impact of S. 59 on consistent and comprehensive management within 

 the State of Nevada and among other states needs to be emphasized because it 

 could be considerable. If the authorities to administer lands under which the 



