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What is Coordination and Why Are We Doing It? |
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Today's guest:
Fred Kelly Grant |
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FRED KELLY
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About Fred
Fred Grant attained his B.A. from the College of Idaho in 1958,
majoring in History; with specialization in Constitutional History
and Law. He then attended the University of Chicago School of Law.
He served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Brune, in the Maryland Court
of Appeals. He first worked as an associate at Lord, Bissell, and
Brook; a Chicago law firm representing Lloyd's of London. He
continued to practice law in the District of Maryland, where he was
an Assistant United States Attorney. He later became Assistant State
Attorney of Baltimore, and then Chief of the Organized Crime Unit,
State's Attorney of Baltimore. He spent his remaining time in
Baltimore involved in criminal defense.
Grant later moved with his family back to Nampa Idaho where he and
his wife were both raised. He accepted an appointment by Idaho’s
Governor as a liaison with the federal agencies, and eventually
served two of Idaho’s Governors in various roles. He has been a
hearing officer in zoning issues for over 30 years and has helped
cities and counties write land use plans protecting property rights.
He works closely with Owyhee County, Idaho where he developed the
“Coordination Strategy” now being taught across the nation as a way
for local governments to have meaningful input into the federal and
state decision making process.
Grant has worked with Stewards of the Range since the early 1990’s
as a consultant and the Litigation Chairman. In 2006 he was elected
by the Board of Directors to serve as President. July 1, 2009
Stewards of the Range merged with the American Land Foundation
creating American Stewards of Liberty. Grant continues to serve as
President of the new organization.
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What is
Coordination and Why Are We Doing It? |
The “coordination process” as directed by Congress is simply that: a
process by which local government and federal agencies are to meet
in a government to government dialogue in order to attempt to reach
consistency between federal plans and actions and local plans and
policies. Congress has recognized that local government has a
position in planning and policy making that is superior to that of
the general public. |
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The “father” of the Coordination process is Fred Kelly Grant. |
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How Coordination Plans Work
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BY FRED KELLY GRANT |
Local governments that have implemented “coordination” status with
federal management agencies are successfully fighting erosion of
private property rights in their communities. The “coordination”
status is authorized by almost every federal statute relating to
management of land, resource, and environment. All the local
government has to do is formally accept the congressional invitation
to “coordinate,” and federal agencies have no choice but to agree.
What is this “coordination” factor, which elevates the involvement
of local government in federal planning and management actions? The
foundation for the concept is found in the Federal Land Policy
Management Act, i.e. commonly known as FLPMA. Section 1712 of Title
43 of the United States Code requires that the Bureau of Land
Management must coordinate its “land use inventory, planning, and
management actions” with any local government which has engaged in
land use planning for the federal lands managed by the federal
agencies.
Congress did not leave the definition of the word “coordination” to
chance, or to the whim of the federal management agencies. Congress
defined the word by specifying the duties and responsibilities of
the BLM regarding local plans. The statute REQUIRES the following: |
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- BLM must
keep apprised of local land use plans;
- BLM must
assure consideration is given to local plans when federal plans
are being developed;
- BLM must
attempt to resolve inconsistencies between federal and state
local plans;
- BLM must
provide “meaningful…involvement” of local government officials
in the development and revision of plans, guidelines and
regulations;
- The
Secretary must, finally, compare local and federal plans and
make sure they are consistent “to the maximum extent…consistent
with federal law.
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BLM regulations set forth a
very clear process by which the local government, which has
developed a plan is able to “coordinate” with the BLM, and this
process includes an elevation of the participation level of the
local government to a point of notice and “meaningful” participation
above and ahead of “public participation.”
Note that the statute does not
limit mandatory coordination to “counties,” but rather extends it to
“local government.” That language includes any unit of local
government, often identified as any separate tax raising unit of
government, i.e., school districts, road districts, fire districts,
irrigation districts, and cities and towns. So, in a county where
county commissioners or supervisors refuse to develop a local plan
for coordination status, any school board or other tax-raising unit
of government can gain coordinate status for itself. The ideal goal
for local government would be to develop a plan by which the county,
towns within the county, school districts, irrigation districts,
fire districts, could all participate in the same coordination
activities.
Other federal land
management agencies are also required to deal with local governments
on a higher plane than they do with the general public. This applies
to those which operate under and implement the National Forest
Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air
Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Preservation Act,
Soil Conservation district statutes, and the National Environmental
Policy Act. |
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