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In general, Omnibus bills do not have a record of properly addressing an issue as much as showing an interest by the sponsors in wielding a big broom to sweep something under the carpet they don't have the time or patience to properly deal with. Unfortunately, this public lands bill smacks of more 'business as usual' avoidance by Congress of careful, thoughtful consideration over our MOST VALUABLE NATURAL RESOURCE: OUR PUBLIC LANDS!

1. These areas have all been evaluated for additional management actions by the FEDERAL AGENCIES already paid with taxpayer money to provide stewardship of these areas, and they have made NO DETERMINATION that additional management action was required. This legislation does an end-run around the very agencies that have THE MOST INSIGHT into these areas. This type of action seems more than inappropriate: THIS LEGISLATION UNDERMINES THE AUTHORITY OF FEDERAL AGENCIES!

2. At a time when the Federal government needs to spend all it's time and resources on trying to get our economy back on it's feet, this bill goes in the opposite direction, creating billions of dollars in new unfunded mandates that would be required to impliment this unneeded legislation, just so we can have even more bureaucracy that usurps current legitimate land use agencies. THIS IS NOT SOUND FISCAL POLICY.

Please use my tax dollars to wisely improve the economy thru infrastructure projects, and let the Federal land use agencies who have authority over these areas continue to manage them with the multiple-use, sustained yields principles that Congress has already required them to use.

Thank you.

Mark Algazy, Esq.