43 U.S.C. § 1711

Continuing inventory and identification of public lands; preparation and maintenance

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(a) The Secretary shall prepare and maintain on a continuing basis an inventory of all public lands and their resource and other values (including, but not limited to, outdoor recreation and scenic values), giving priority to areas of critical environmental concern. This inventory shall be kept current so as to reflect changes in conditions and to identify new and emerging resource and other values. The preparation and maintenance of such inventory or the identification of such areas shall not, of itself, change or prevent change of the management or use of public lands.(b) As funds and manpower are made available, the Secretary shall ascertain the boundaries of the public lands; provide means of public identification thereof including, where appropriate, signs and maps; and provide State and local governments with data from the inventory for the purpose of planning and regulating the uses of non-Federal lands in proximity of such public lands.(Pub. L. 94–579, title II, § 201, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2747.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 32 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1979–2023 · leading case: Oregon Nat. Desert Ass'n v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 625 F.3d 1092 (9th Cir. 2010).
Oregon Nat. Desert Ass'n v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 625 F.3d 1092 (9th Cir. 2010). · cites it 4× “Rather, as § 1782 makes clear, it is the 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a) general resource inventory process, which catalogues “all public lands and their resource and other values,” id.”
Oregon Nat. Desert Ass'n v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 531 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2008). · cites it 4× “Rather, as § 1782 makes clear, it is the 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a) general resource inventory process, which catalogues “all public lands and their resource and other values,” id.”
State of Utah v. Babbitt, 137 F.3d 1193 (10th Cir. 1998). · cites it 6× “” 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a). FLPMA § 603 ordered the Secretary to review within fifteen years certain “roadless areas of five thousand acres or more” and report to the President recommendations concerning the “suitability or nonsuitability” of each area for preservation as wilderness.”
Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 422 F. Supp. 2d 1115 (N.D. Cal. 2006). · cites it 2× “See 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a). FLPMA also provides that the systematic inventory of public lands and their resources forms the basis of the land use planning process.”
State of Utah v. Andrus, 486 F. Supp. 995 (D. Utah 1979). · cites it 2× “Under section 201(a) [ 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a) (Supp.1979)], the BLM 8 is directed to conduct an inventory of all BLM managed lands and their resource and other values.”
Utah v. United States Dep't of the Interior, 535 F.3d 1184 (10th Cir. 2008). “FLPMA § 201, the inventory provision, requires BLM to prepare and maintain inventories, on a continuing basis, of all public lands under its control.”
Oregon Nat. Desert Ass'n v. Rasmussen, 451 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (D. Or. 2006). · cites it 3× “” 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a). BLM completed the required inventory of wilderness areas within the Beaty Butte Allotment (Oregon Wilderness Final EIS) in 1989.”
S. Utah Wilderness All. v. Norton, 326 F. Supp. 2d 102 (D.D.C. 2004). · cites it 2× “” 43 U.S.C. § 1711 (a). Further, FLPMA mandates that the Secretary review certain “roadless areas of five thousand acres or more” and provide the President with recommendations concerning the “suitability or nonsuitability” of each area for preservation as wilderness.”
W. Watersheds Proj. v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 721 F.3d 1264 (10th Cir. 2013). “In carrying out this mission, BLM also must comply with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (“FLPMA”), 43 U.S.C. § 1711 et seq., which requires BLM, inter alia, to develop land use plans for the public lands it administers with a goal of improving resource…”
State of Utah v. Norton, 396 F.3d 1281 (10th Cir. 2005). “eliminates Bureau of Land Management's (BLM’s) discretion under the Federal Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA) § 201, 43 U.S.C. § 1711 , to conduct wilderness inventories; 3.”
Murphy Co. v. Joseph Biden, 65 F.4th 1122 (9th Cir. 2023). “, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1711–23, 1751–52, 1761–87 (sections featuring specific regulations on federal land).”
Sierra Club v. Watt, 608 F. Supp. 305 (E.D. Cal. 1985). “, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1711 , 1712(a), 1781(d) and 1782(a), those powers do not govern the instant issue.”
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