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RCED-84-54 1 (1983-11-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabeil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE US. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Chairman, Subcommittee On Public Lands And Reserved Water Committee On Energy And Natural Resources United States Senate Corps Of Engineers' And Bureau Of Reclamation's Recreation Construction Backlogs The Army's Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Rec- lamation have large backlogs of construc- tion projects for recreation. Recreation is a cqmponent of some of the agencies' water resources projects whose primary objec- tiyes include navigation, flood control, and hydroelectric power. For the Corps and B rea u construction projects receiving appro- p iations for fiscal year 1982, recreation c nstruction backlogs totaled $755 million a, d $188 million, respectively, as of the b ginning of fiscal year 1982. These amounts r presented about 3 percent of the agen- cies' estimated total costs for the projects v ith unfunded recreation components. The r asons for the backlogs include funding li~nitations, lack of funding priorities, and co)mpeting funding demands such as author- lation of new projects. January 26, 1983, GAO report on the orps' and the Bureau's total construction b cklogs presented the Congress with a number of options to deal with the backlogs, i cluding funding increases, increased cost s aring by nonfederal sponsors, and setting f nding priorities. These options also apply tO the recreation construction backlogs. 122890 GAO/RCED-84-54 NOVEMBER 25, 1983 / 4_0% %a I%-'

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