Bureau of Land Management Should Follow Fair Market Value Requirements in Selling Land in Las Vegas, Nevada

摘要

This report determines whether the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) land sale procedures were in accordance with fair market value requirements and whether the procedures affected the Forest Service's land acquisition program at Lake Tahoe. The report discusses the procedures BLM used to sell public land in Las Vegas, Nevada, under authority of the Santini-Burton Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-586). It also discusses the Forest Service land acquisition program in the Lake Tahoe Basin which was authorized by the act. The report concludes that BLM's May 1983 sale did not comply with federal requirements that land be sold for no less than appraised fair market value and that the sales program has not had any effect on the Service's land acquisition program because direct payments are not made to the Service.