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1 enhanced by the professional, multiple-use management 



2 of the Forest Service; and that certain national forest 



3 lands would be enhanced by the professional multiple- 



4 use management of the Bureau of Land Management; 



5 (2) the public which uses these natural resources 



6 will be benefited by such adjustments in management; 



7 (3) the public lands transferred by this Act to the 



8 Forest Service are adjacent to existing national forests 



9 and, in many cases, are part of the same watersheds 



10 and mountain ranges, and placing the management of 



11 these lands under the administration of one agency, the 



12 Forest Service, will improve efficiency and be cost ef- 



13 fective; that similar efficiency and effectiveness will 



14 result from transfer of certain national forest lands to 



15 the Bureau of Land Management and; 



16 (4) there is a consensus in Nevada that these 



17 lands should be added to the national forests and that 



18 some national forest lands should be transferred to the 



19 Bureau of Land Management for management. 



20 (b) PuEPOSES. — The purposes of this Act are — 



21 (1) to transfer to the Forest Service, United 



22 States Department of Agriculture, certain public lands 



23 in Nevada currently administered by the Bureau of 



24 Land Management, United States Department of the 



25 Literior. These pubUc lands are contiguous to the 



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