The current goals and objectives of the Department of the Interior have been formulated to support and assist the Reagan administration's overall program and to return balance to the management of the public lands.

The federal government's proper role is to insure that private enterprise has access to energy and mineral resources within the context of its responsibilities for protection of the environment. The Department of the Interior is formulating policies designed to: encourage exploration as a guarantee of adequate, accurate geologic data of the mineral resources of the nation; reduce excessive and unnecessary regulations, thereby encouraging increased responsibility and competition on the part of private enterprise; implement wise multiple use of the public lands; reduce this nation's reliance on foreign sources of strategic minerals.

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