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COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION


L,


UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING  OFFICE Q
         WASHINGTON,  D C  20548


                                         NOV  15 1976


The Honorable Nathaniel P  Reed
Assistant Secretary for Fish and
  Wildlife and Parks
Department of the Interior


Dear Mr  Reed


     We recently completed a
outdoor recreation programs
lieve warrant your attention


survey of certain aspects of the Department's
We  identified several matters which we be-
  The areas include


     --overall planning for national outdoor recreation needs and
       resources needs to be improved,
     --weaknesses in the processing of alternate transportation system
       studies for national parks, and

     --the system for identifying maintenance needs in national parks
       needs to be improved

     During our survey, we contacted officials of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement and Bureau of Reclamation in Washington, D C , U S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and National Park Service
in Washington, D C , and Atlanta, Georgia, Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Everglades National Park in Homestead,
Florida

Overall planning for national
outdoor recreation needs
and resources needs to be improved

     Public Law 88-29, enacted May 1963, authorized the Secretary of the
Interior to prepare and maintain a comprehensive nationwide outdoor rec-
reation plan and a continuing inventory of the Nation's outdoor recreation
needs and resources

     According to the act, the plan was to identify critical outdoor rec-
reation problems and set forth solutions and actions to correct the

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