The head of the Bureau of Land Management acknowledged in a recent letter to a conservation group that the agency has a problem responding to open records requests, but said officials are taking substantive steps to resolve the issue.
BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, in a letter sent last week to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, wrote that the bureau this year has implemented a series of moves designed to whittle down a Freedom of Information Act backlog of nearly 1,600 requests.