This book reviews the consideration of oil and gas leasing in the land use planning processes of the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. This volume was required by the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987. It identifies problems in land use planning that are caused by current leasing practices and the availability and reliability of information at the planning stage, and makes recommendations that address the interrelation between oil and gas leasing decisions and the land use planning process for federal lands.

This text discusses provisions of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987 and regulations. The work includes the text of the Act, equivalents between the statutes at large and the U.S. Code, and amended regulations covering leasing on federal mineral lands.