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<br /> <br /><::> <br />o <br />::::> <br />c> <br />::.n <br />"" <br /> <br /> <br />- -- <br /> <br />AMERICA'S THIRD CENTURY <br /> <br />A NEW ERA FOR PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT <br /> <br />The Federal Land Policy and <br />M,magement Act of 1976, <br />passed in the closing huurs of <br />the Q4th Congress and signed by the <br />President on October Z 1, m<lY prove <br />to be the most sigmfic<1nt piece of land <br />legislation enacted within this <br />century. It is the first clear-cut <br />mandate Congress has ever given to <br />the Bureau of Land Management for <br />the dclministration of the 473 million <br />acres of Federal lands under its juris- <br />diction. In acres, this is more land <br />than is held by all the other Federal <br />agencies combined. <br />