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B-164497(3) 1 (1979-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgxj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECIS FILE: B-1 MATTER DIGEST: 64497(3) THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 DATE: February 6, 1979 OF: r.vailability of Appropriations +-4Ma-i-ain Highland Scenic Highway 1. Highland Scenic Highway in Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, was to be constructed and managed by U. S. Forest Service as route on Federal-aid secondary system and parkway. - L. . Forest Roads and Trails appropria- tion is not available to maintain Highland Scenic Highway, because it does not fit definitions and statutory purpose of forest road or trail. 2. Law requires Forest Service to manage parkway portion of Highland Scenic Highway as part of Monongahela National Forest. Pub. L. No. 93-87. West Virginia, which built part of Highway written Forest as public lands highway, open to commer- cial traffic, says it lacks authority to maintain that part because Pub. L. No. 93-87 bars commercial traffic and State cannot maintain limited service highway. Forest Protection and Utilization appro- priation to Forest Service, since it is available for management of National Forest, may be used for maintenance of Highway within Forest. The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture has asked whether funds appropriated to the Forest Service for construction and maintenance of forest development roads and trails are available to maintain the Highland Scenic Highway. Completion of the Highway, a scenic thoroughfare running through the Monongahela National Forest, by the United States was authorized by section 161 of the Federal-Aid.igluyAct of 1973 IubL. No. _-8_,7__ Stat. 250,279 (August 13, 1973). Section 161 of the Act provides in releva part: (a) The Secret.ir :pf Agriculture (acting through the Forest Servicel is authorized to develop and construct as a r:1 way the Highland Scenic High- way from West Virginia State Route 39 to U. S. 250 near Barton Knob. Notwithstanding subsection j q o 4 3 -

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