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CED-77-130 1 (1977-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawdo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DCCUMENT FESUME 03969 - rB28741441 Federal Interests Should Receive More Corsidezation under the Forest Highway Program. CED-77-130; B-164497(3). October 13, 1q77. 13 pp. + appendix (1 pp.). Report to Secretary, Department of Agriculture; Secretary, Departzc nt of Transportation; by Henry Eschwege, Director, Comounity and Economic Development Div. Issue Area: Land Use Planning and Control: Federal Programs Ccicerning hon-public Lands and Related Resources (2307); Transrortation Systems and Policies: National Highway System 12409), Contact: Community ard Economic Derelopment Div. Budgot Functio-n: C'owmerce and Transportation: Ground Transportation (404) . Oganiza'icn Concerned: Federal Highway kdmi.istration; Forest ServicR. Congressional Relevance: House Comwittee on Public Works anu Transportation; Senate Committee on Public Works. Authority: Federal Aid Hignway 'Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-605; 84 Stat. 1713; 84 Stat. 1737; 23 t.S.C. 101(a)). Federal Aid Road Act of 1916. Federal Highway Act of 1921. 23 U.S.C. 244(b). 23 U.S.C. 205(b). 23 C.F.R. 660 et seq. The forest highway program, as currently administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and the Forest Service, is not meeting the Forest Service's needs for managing th- national forest resources. Findings/Conclusions: Forest highways total about 22,000 miles and are of special Federal interest because they link the nctional forests to the Federal-aid highway system. The Congress, in establishing the fo.:est highway program, expressed a special interest in providing access to Government-owned national resources as well as for the benefits cf communities in or near national forest boundaries. Incremental administrative and legislative changes in the forest highway program between 1970 and 177 have changed the program's focus from Federal ccntrol to State control and have lessened the Forest Service's input. As a result, forest highway funds were devoted to roads of primary importance to the States anO had 'little or no relaticn to national forest transportation needs. Recommendations: The Secretaries of Aariculture and Transportation should direct the FHA and the Forest Service to jointly develop and is:sue specific c':iteria for selecting projects meriting forest highway funding and should jointly develop proposed legislation to permit those forest roads that were forverly ccrsidered forest highways to be eligible for funding under the forest highway program. (SC)

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