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114025 1 (1980-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxtl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE A 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 December 17, 1980 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION Mr. R. Max Peterson Chief, U.S. Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture 114025 Washington, D.C. 20250 Dear Mr. Peterson: Subject: Lroposed Forest Service Land Exchange Involving the Chattahoochie National Forest in Georgi At the request of Congressman Larry P. McDonald we are currently reviewing a proposed Forest Service land exchange (case number A-2064) involving the Chattahoochie National Forest in Georgia. The proposal calls for Ben Foster, et al, the owners of 1,330 acres of private property in Chattooga, Walker, and Whitfield Counties, to swap that land in exchange for 667 acres of Forest Service land within the National Forest. The exchange is proposed under authority of the Weeks Law, as amended (16 U.S.C. 516), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of October 21, 1976, (43 U.S.C. 1716). Although we have not completed our review, we have noted certain matters which we believe make it inappropriate for the proposed ex- change to go forward and be consummated on the present basis. The proposed exchange, involving Forest Service land appraised at $328,000, was approved by the Secretary of Agriculture on September 3, 1980, and was submitted to the Senate and House oversight committees on September 5, 1980. In the interim, certain questions have arisen concerning the value placed on the Forest Service land pursuant to Section 17(b) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976. The Forest Service land was first appraised on November 30, 1979, at $328,000 (value based on survey acres) by a Forest Service contract .appraiser. Subsequently, at the request of the Forest Service, the contract appraiser was requested to update his prior appraisal. According to the updated appraisal dated November 14, 1980, there has been no increase in the value of the land in the past year--the Forest Service land is still appraised at $328,000. (021930)

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