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CED-77-83 1 (1977-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacir0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REVIEW OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION -D-125053 COSTS IN MONTANA NATIONAL CED-77-83 FORESTS--FOREST SERVICE / 6-10-77 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE/ RESTRICTED -J&aUer report to Senator Lee Metcalf, pursuant to his request, on our review of Forest Service's costs to have roads constructed into timber sales areas in Montana national forests. The scope of our work was limited because, since January 1972, only seven Forest Service contracts were awarded for new road construction in Montana national forests. Three of these roads were in the two. forests we reviewed, but only one was designed to standards similar to roads built by timber purchasers. We reported that it cost the Service more in cases where it contracted for such roads directly, using appropriated funds (public works contracts), than it did in cases where timber purchasers were allowed a credit against the sale price of timber to build the roads or to have them built. This is primarily because the Service has more stringent contracting and contract administration procedures for public works roads and wages paid under public works contracts are higher. Service officials agreed with our observations and said they were in the process of revising their engineering requirements, contracting procedures, and road design specifications. This should help to eliminate some of the cost and engineering differences now existing under the two methods of building roads. No-lftdex preparadL

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