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            UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         EXPECTED BY 9:30 A.M. EST
                                         FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1982

                         STATEMENT OF
              WILBUR D. CAMPBELL, ACTING DIRECTOR
         ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION
                          BEFORE THE
         SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT
         HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

                              ON

           EXPENDITURES BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                    FOR SOCIAL FUNCTIONS


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are here today to discuss our review of the Department

of Interior's management of trust funds which was undertaken at

the request of this Subcommittee.  We have been working on the

request about 5 weeks and have spent most of that time develop-

ing information on expenditures from the National Park Service's

Cooperating Association Fund, or as it sometimes is called, the

Director's Discretionary Fund.

     The Fund's source of revenue is limited to donations from the

62 nonprofit organizations promoting national parks.  The amounts

donated each year are rather small, totaling only about $54,000  in

fiscal 1981, and only  $37,775 of the total amount donated since fis-

cal 1962 remained unexpended at the end of last  fiscal year. Only

about  $850 of the unexpended amount remained unobligated at that time.

Our emphasis on  the Fund resulted from the Subcommittee's specific





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