Gao-06-1016 Recreation Fees

Gao-06-1016 Recreation Fees PDF

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781984943392

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GAO-06-1016 Recreation Fees: Agencies Can Better Implement the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and Account for Fee Revenues

Federal User Fees

Federal User Fees PDF

Author: Susan J. Irving

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1437906060

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Fed. gov¿t policymakers are interested in user fees as a means of financing new and existing services. User fees can be designed to reduce the burden on taxpayers to finance the portions of activities that provide benefits to identifiable users above and beyond what is normally provided to the public. User fees can promote economic efficiency and equity. However user fees must be well designed. This report studies how user fee design characteristics may influence the effectiveness of user fees. The author examined how the 4 key design and implementation characteristics of user fees -- how fees are set, collected, used, and reviewed -- may affect the economic efficiency, equity, revenue adequacy, and administrative burden of cost-based fees.

Forest Service: Emerging Issues Highlight the Need to Address Persistent Management Challenges

Forest Service: Emerging Issues Highlight the Need to Address Persistent Management Challenges PDF

Author: Robin M. Nazzaro

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 1437914268

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The Forest Service, within the U.S. Dept. of Ag., manages over 190 million acres of forest and grassland. The agency is responsible for managing its lands for various purposes -- including recreation, grazing, timber harvesting, and others -- while ensuring that such activities do not impair the lands' long-term productivity. Carrying out these often competing responsibilities has been made more difficult by the increasing cost of wildland fires and the budgetary constraints necessitated by our nation's long-term fiscal outlook. This testimony highlights some of the major management challenges the Forest Service faces in carrying out its responsibilities. It is based on numerous reports issued on a wide variety of the agency's activities.

Department of the Interior: Major Management Challenges

Department of the Interior: Major Management Challenges PDF

Author: Robin M. Nazzaro

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1437913768

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The Dept. of the Interior is responsible for managing much of the nation's vast natural resources. Its agencies implement an array of programs intended to protect these precious resources for future generations while also allowing certain uses of them, such as oil and gas dev¿t. and recreation. Interior faces major mgmt. challenges in the following six areas: (1) Strengthening resource protection; (2) Strengthening the accountability of Indian and island community programs; (3) Improving fed. land acquisition and mgmt.; (4) Reducing Interior's deferred maintenance backlog; (5) Ensuring the accurate collection of royalties; and (6) Enhancing other revenue collections and financial assurances. Illustrations.