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B-162986 1 (1968-05-01)

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            COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                      WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548









   r. ilimJ. Carney, Jr.
holland & hart
Attorneys at aw
500 Equitable Buildin
Denver, Colorado 30202
Dear Ar. Carney:

     her referece is       de to or letters of  -erabnd
Decem'ber 18, 1967, wheei you sugstedl, for the reasons stated
therein, our consideaion of the grdaed rate fee system which
the Forest Service, l. S.     tment of Aicultsre, proposes to
adopt with respect to national forest special use pris for
vaneical public service enterprises. The Foes Service, we
.aderstand, is still in the process of fomltng its final regua-
tions and e~~ets to i lemntthe    rauted rate fee system on or
bout July 1, 1968, except for winter-s   s area      s, the
roposed rate structue for   uch pris ben     ceued for re-
xanaion and eeaation.* As counsel for a gopof national
forest ski area oeaors you are concrnd     ith the application
of the gaatdrate fee system to witr-      ports  e~as.

     in the review drat of the gautdrate fee system, distributed
for cmetJuly 1967 to oublic service enepises on national
forest lnds, the Forest Service stated th o    ives  f the new

system   2e fees that will be fair to bo th the Gv e        and the
permittees and ;hich will allow reasonable charges to Jatlonal
est ecreatioist.           new  s     preserves the curent sstem's
2eneral concept of a fee based on a pe  t    o ales, but intro-
duces a variation in that te fee rate is      ted as the volume
of sales relates to the permittee's investment, the Gross Fixed
Assets (GA). For      pe, the g     t      imm rate   hedule for
winter sports set f  h in the review draft of July 1)67,    hich
the Forest Service is reconsidering, is as folos:

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