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GAO-01-53R 1 (2000-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalrh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 November 16, 2000 The Honorable James V. Hansen Chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands Committee on Resources House of Representatives Subject: Forest Service: Consolidation of the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station With the Intermountain Research Station Dear Mr. Chairman: The Forest Service, within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), maintains 77 research laboratories, organized within regional research stations, to develop scientific information to improve the management, protection, and use of forests and rangelands. In response to budget-reduction initiatives in the 1990s, the Forest Service consolidated the administrative and management functions of some of these stations. For instance, in May 1997, the Forest Service consolidated into one administrative unit its Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station with its Intermountain Research Station. The consolidated station was renamed the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) and headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Ogden headquarters office of the former Intermountain Research Station, with the remaining managerial and administrative staff, was renamed the Ogden Service Center. Because of your interest in the consolidation of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, we are providing you with information on (1) the chronology of the consolidation of the former Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station and the former Intermountain Research Station, (2) the managerial and administrative staff reductions and associated cost savings resulting from the consolidation, and (3) the overall changes in the research staffing levels and research budgets that have taken place since the consolidation of the Rocky Mountain Research Station was proposed in fiscal year 1992. In summary, the Forest Service originally proposed merging the managerial and administrative staff positions of the research stations in August 1992 but delayed this action until May 1997 so that it could complete its reorganizational assessment under 'The former Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station was headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, and managed additional research units in Fort Collins, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Flagstaff, Arizona; Laramie, Wyoming; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Rapid City, South Dakota. The former Intermountain Research Station was headquartered in Ogden, Utah, and managed additional research units in Logan, Ogden, and Provo, Utah; Bozeman and Missoula, Montana; Reno, Nevada; and Boise and Moscow, Idaho. GAO/01-53R Forest Service Office Consolidation

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