Personnel Practices: Legality of Political Appointments at the Bureau of Land Management

GGD-87-21BR Published: Nov 24, 1986. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 1986.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the legality of political appointments at the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), specifically: (1) certain Land Policy and Management Act provisions; (2) the number of such appointments in recent years; and (3) background information on the current political appointees.

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Topics

Human Capital

Government job appointmentsJob classificationPersonnel managementPolitical appointeesLand managementSenior Executive ServiceReorganizationPublic landsCivil serviceCivil service reform