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B-177444 1 (1973-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagdq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENEFAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 lB-177444 J3 ! Q 3 BEST DOCUMAlENT AVA I The Honorable Herman E. Talmadge United States Senate IIIiII!11 l l1 1111l 1!llllfIll l LM096330 Dear Senator Talmadge This report is in response to your request of November 7, 1972, that we determine whether construction of the proposed Blue Ridge Parkway etensi. will bring T claimed by its proponents to the northeastern section of Georgia and whether the benefits will offset its cost suffi- ciently to merit continued funding. The National Park Service, Department of the interior, has not yet designated the specific location of the parkway corridor and has not orepared recent estimaTeq of henef:lts and costs associated with the parkway extension. Therefore we cannot make a realistic benefits-versus-costs analysis. As agreed with your office, this report is limited to , information available at the Park Service's Bluc Ridge Park- way Headquarters, Asheville, North Carolina, and the U.S. . 2 Forest Service Regional Office, Atlanta, Georgia, that should provide a perspective of the economic issues involved. Al- though we did not obtain formal comments from the Department. of the interior on this report, we did discuss it with Park Service officials who agreed with the facts and comments included. ANTICIPATED COSTS The Federal Government will pay for planning and con- structing the project, and the State governments of Georgia and North Carolina will pay for the acquisition of rihts-O- way on privately owned land in their respective States. Tle fo i ow rn stimates of these costs was made in 1967 and werc included in the Park Service's Master Plan for the Blue Rid,e Parkway extension. ~~~C/o7 330

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