Wednesday, June 19, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.
SUN STAFF REPORTS
The local Bureau of Land Management office has run afoul of its own notification procedures by failing to send out letters about a land exchange proposed by the Arizona-based Olympic Group.
The proposed land exchange was properly noticed in local newspapers, but was not sent to about 30 parties that had asked for written notices to be sent to them.
"It has been discovered that a procedural oversight occurred ... which resulted in the lack of individual mailings of the subject notice," Gary Ryan, acting assistant district manager for the BLM, wrote to the Clark County Commission and other local entities.
Although the proposal was properly noticed in local newspapers, Ryan said the office decided the public's best interest would be served by extending the public comment period on the land exchange until July 9.
The local BLM office has come under fire after a preliminary report from the Interior Department's inspector general revealed that taxpayers were shorted $12.2 million on four land exchanges between 1993 and 1995. Two of the deals involved Olympic.
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