Mineral Revenues: Funding for the Idaho Initiative Project

Abstract

This report responds to your request that we trace fiscal year 1989 expenditures for certain mineral resource assessment studies known as the Idaho initiative, by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). USGS routinely conducts mineral resource assessments to determine the potential for discovering minerals in the United States. The USGS fiscal year 1989 appropriation included $24.5 million for mineral resource assessment studies, of which $ 1.5 million was to be used for the first year of a $4.5 million, 3-year effort to conduct studies of roadless and undeveloped federal lands in Idaho. Because $500,000 of the $1.5 million was to be used by the state of Idaho's Geological Survey, we limited the scope of our work to the $1 million to be spent by USGS for the Idaho Initiative.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA267420

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