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RCED-98-164R 1 (1998-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacmhj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAo United States General Accounting Office GAO Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-279757 May 6, 1998 Congressional Requesters Subject: Forest Service: Indirect Expenditures Charged to Five Funds In fiscal year 1996, the Forest Service reported that the timber program lost money for the first time in its history. This reported loss has heightened the interest in the financial status and spending habits of the Forest Service. Recognizing this increased interest, you asked us to provide data on expenditures for indirect support activities by five Forest Service funds. We also agreed to alert you to any limitations in using these data. The five funds cover such activities as brush disposal (the Brush Disposal Fund), road and trail reconstruction and maintenance (the Cooperative Work-Other Fund), reforestation (the Reforestation Trust Fund and the Cooperative Work-Knutson- Vandenberg Fund, commonly called the K-V Fund), and the preparation and administration of salvage timber sales (the Salvage Sale Fund)-all of which are defined in enclosure I. We have assembled this preliminary information as an initial step in responding to your larger request for an analysis of indirect costs incurred by these funds, which we expect to provide to you in a report due to be issued in July of this year. The information we are providing in this report is taken directly from expenditure documents from the Forest Service without any analysis on our part of the reasons for changes in expenditures over the period. Enclosure II contains a general summary of expenditures for all funds and offices combined. Enclosure III is a graph of the relationship between indirect and total expenditures for all five funds combined. Enclosure IV contains a summary of expenditures by fund for all offices combined. Enclosure V is a graph of the relationship between indirect and total expenditures for each of the funds, and enclosure VI identifies for each Forest Service region and the Washington Office, the amount of indirect expenditures made from each fund in fiscal years 1993-97 and the size of these indirect expenditures relative to the total expenditures from each fund. GAO/RCED-98-164R Indirect Expenditures to Five Funds -)

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