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Show WHAT TO DO TO CUT BACKLOG w,the!lc"'mal number of applications i uglfone BLM at one time should yef7 about 5,000, BLM has been I ! 'ha'11ieasing Pressure to pare down iJiH ,g f aPPl'cations-totalling Itii .w '000'Pronto- Dale Zimmer-, Zimmer-, :te. f the BLM division of on (.,, rgv resources, has proposed Procedures designed to h. , , backlg by the end of 1 1.: '"Id WRW in an interview on I tf1'"? we can do right away is to 1$ e 1,16 requests we make to the Wirr' Survey USGS) for W of Known Geological "rs (KGS). All areas with KGS S-be ip d competitively. The rest wsed non-competitively." Ifed htates f Arizona, Oregon and Ik Ve no KGS's with producing hife don't have to ask GS for "nation for these states. We departmental inspector general, has extended the time and offering of noncompetitive non-competitive leases from one to two months, and has increased the size of the tracts offered as a means of cutting down on the time it takes to move applications, ap-plications, Zimmerman told WRW. Other actions that BLM plans to implement im-plement as soon as it gets Watt's okay are limiting the number of assignments that have to be filed to successful applicants ap-plicants without the current 90 day deadline; automating the application processing system in all offices (only the Wyoming office is now automated) ; use 800 toll free numbers and recordings recor-dings to answer routine questions; centralize cen-tralize and automate statements of qualifying applicants; putting out a leasing manual; and standardizing pre lease stipulations by interagency agreement with USGS and the Forest Service. Interior has taken a couple of other actions which are designed directly or indirectly to speed up on shore leasing. In 1978. the National Commission on Working Work-ing Women reported that 43 percent of professional pro-fessional and 59 percent of women in blue- and pink-collars jobs were dissatisfied with lack of opportunity for job advancement. ad-vancement. The Commission Com-mission stated that women hold 2 percent or less of middle management man-agement positions, while men constitute 96 percent per-cent of those earning over S30.000 annually. A female college graduate grad-uate can expect to earn $10,519 while her male counterpart earns SI7.I29. Six out of seven working work-ing women are not represented rep-resented by organized labor. |