Federal land management agencies use a variety of agreements and plans to help manage mining and other projects on federal lands. Drafting and negotiation of these agreements is often handled by agency resource spe cialists, such as wildlife biologists and archaeologists, and company geology or environmental staff. This practice begs the question: Would you entrust drafting and negotiation of your other legal agreements to biologists or geologists? Agency plans and agreements can have long-term financial and operational implications, for both agencies and companies, throughout the life of a mining or other project, and should be regarded as the substantive and enforceable legal agreements that in many cases they are.
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