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REPORT BY THE U, S.                                                    RELEASED



General Accounting Office


Cost Estimate For The Currituck

Outer Banks National Wildlife Refuge

Needs Revision


The Department of the Interior has proposed estab-
lishing a national wildlife refuge in the Currituck
Outer Banks off the North Carolina coast. The De-
partment estimated that acquiring nearly 16,000 acres
of land and wetlands for the refuge will cost $94
million over a 5-year period.

In proposing the refuge, the Department generally ad-
hered to the requirements of the National Environ-
mental Policy Act. However, in developing the cost
estimate, it did not consider a number of factors that
could substantially reduce the cost of establishing the
refuge. One such factor was working with the Corps
of Engineers to protect wetlands using existing regu-
latory authority. This authority could be used to pro-
tect a portion of the refuge area during the adminis-
tration's land acquisition moratorium.

GAO recommends that the Department of the Interior
revise its cost estimate before requesting funds from
the Congress for the refuge and that the Departments
of the Interior and Army develop a cooperative agree-
ment to protect the wetlands.


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    CED-81-48
APRIL 21, 1981


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