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RCED-96-189R 1 (1996-06-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-272118 June 11, 1996 The Honorable James V. Hansen Chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands Committee on Resources House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: In light of our past work on a variety of issues involving federal recreational activities, your office asked us to provide you with our views on H.R. 2107-a bill to improve the quality of visitors' services provided by recreational sites managed by the National Park Service (NPS), the Forest Service (FS), and three other federal land management agencies.1 The bill would fund these improvements by amending current legislation to allow the agencies to initiate or increase fees for the use of parks and other recreational facilities. The bill provides incentives for the increased collection of fees by permitting the agencies to keep the revenue that would be generated by the provisions of the proposed legislation rather than return the fees to the general fund of the Treasury. While H.R. 2107 pertains to five of the major federal land management agencies, our comments focus on NPS and FS-the two that have the most visitors and generate most of the fee revenue. We have reported extensively on NPS' and FS' recreational programs and activities. Many of these reports address issues pertinent to the matters discussed in the bill. In summary, our work has shown the following: 'Five federal agencies are addressed in the bill. They are the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, within the Department of the Interior; and the Forest Service, within the Department of Agriculture. GAO/RCED-96-189R Comments on H.R. 2107

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