Roads and trails are essential to protection and management of national forests and utilization of their resources. The system consists of approximately 193,863 miles of earth- or gravel-surfaced roads and 104,656 miles of supplemental trails. The Federal Highway Act of 1962 provides authorizations of $70 million for 1964, and $85 million for 1965. The Federal Highway Act of 1964 provides an additional authorization of $85 million for 1966 and $85 million for 1967. These authorizations are available for obligation a year in advance of the year for which authorized. The 1965 budget provided for utilization of $72.5 million of the $85 million 1965 authorization. This budget provides for utilization of $81 million of the $85 million 1966 authorization and $3.2 million of the unused portion of the 1965 authorization. At this level, the 1966 program will involve the construction and reconstruction of about 934 miles of general purpose and recreation roads, and about 931 miles of timber access roads to harvest national forest timber, a total of approximately 1,865 miles. This compares with 1,524 miles built in 1964 and 1,900 miles being built in 1965. Of the amounts received annually from national forest activities, 10% is available under the permanent appropriation Roads and trails for States, for construction and Obligations are distributed as follows: Agriculture, Forest Service... General Services Administration. Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. FOREST SERVICE Total number of permanent positions.. Average salary of ungraded positions. ALLOTMENT ACCOUNTS Total number of permanent positions Total personnel compensation............ 125 132 134 12.0 Personnel benefits... 9 10 10 21.0 Travel and transportation of persons. 22.0 Transportation of things................ 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities.. 42 42 42 4 2 24.0 Printing and reproduction.. 1 25.1 Other services... 63 25.2 Services of other agencies. 57 32.0 Lands and structures... 784 Access roads (program costs, funded) 1. Change in selected resources 2 1 1 Includes capital outlay costs of: 1964, $888 thousand; 1965. $895 thousand. 2 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $793 thousand; 1964, $460 thousand; 1965, $0. As of June 30, 1964 approximately 9,800 acres of land remain to be acquired to preserve the wilderness conditions of part of the Superior National Forest in Minnesota. The authorization for the purchase of land within this forest was increased to $4.5 million by Public Law 87-351, approved October 4, 1961. The 1963 appropriation completed the authorization for acquisition of the remaining 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $362 thousand; 1965, $1,000 thousand; 1966, $0. 2 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $1,809 thousand (1964 adjustments, -$72 thousand); 1964, $527 thousand; 1965, $0. Full or partial interest in existing roads or rights-of-way is purchased (or obtained by condemnation if purchase negotiations fail) to provide access to national forest areas where road access is a serious problem. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) (Special fund) SPECIAL ACTS For acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage orginating within the exterior boundaries of the following national forests, in accordance with the provisions of the following Acts, authorizing annual appropriations of forest receipts for such purposes, and in not to exceed the following amounts from such receipts, Cache National Forest, Utah, Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), as amended, $10,000; 'Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah, Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), as amended, $20,000; Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1205), as amended, $8,000; [Angeles National Forest, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 299), $8,000; Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 297-298), $8,000; San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests in Riverside County, California, Act of June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 699), $8,000;] Sequoia National Forest, California, Act of June 17, 1940 (54 Stat. 402), [$8,000]$32,000; in all, $70,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for acquisition of any land which is not within the boundaries of the national forests and/or for the acquisition of any land without the approval of the local government concerned. (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Includes capital outlay costs of: 1964, $10 thousand; 1965, $117 thousand, 1966. $64 thousand. Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $22 thousand: 1964, $53 thousand; 1965, $0; 1966, $0. On the basis of agreements with certain counties in Utah, Nevada, and California, National Forest receipts, including the portions which would normally be paid to county road and school funds, are used for purchase by the Government of privately owned lands within the National Forests to aid in the control of soil erosion and flood damage. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $65 thousand; 1965, $40 thousand. Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $55 thousand; 1964, $14 thousand; 1965, $0. Lands are acquired within the Cache National Forest, Utah, to enable control and minimization of soil erosion and flood damage. Financing: 21 Unobligated balance available, start of II. Personnel compensation: Permanent posi tions... 25.1 Other services....... 32.0 Lands and structures. 99.0 Total obligations... Personnel Summary 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year.. 70 20 7.4 Average GS salary. Average salary of ungraded positions. 7.4 $6,986 $7,214 $5,749 $5,775 7.4 $7,286 $5,767 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $5 thousand; 1965, $385 thousand. 2 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $0; 1964, $175 thousand: 1965, $0. FOREST SERVICE-Continued General and special funds-Continued [ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST-Con. Public Law 87-661, approved September 14, 1962, added some 24,000 acres to the Wasatch National Forest in Utah, of which only approximately 5,000 acres in scattered tracts are now in Federal ownership. The act authorizes the appropriation of $400 thousand for purchase of privately owned lands within the area to aid in the control of floods and reduction of soil erosion as the primary value of these lands is for watershed purposes. The 1965 appropriation completed the authorization. As of June 30, 1964, approximately 8,000 acres of land have been acquired. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) Identification code 05-96-1123-0-1-402 11.1 Personnel compensation: Permanent positions... 24.0 Printing and reproduction....... 25.2 Services of other agencies.. 1 26.0 Supplies and materials. 2 31.0 Equipment........ 41.0 Grants, subsidies, and contributions.. - 840 ASSISTANCE TO STATES FOR TREE PLANTING For expenses necessary to carry out section 401 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, approved May 28, 1956 (16 U.S.C. 568e), $1,000,000 to remain available until expended. (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE Appropriations [available] to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) purchase of not to exceed one hundred and [twenty-nine] twenty-six passenger motor vehicles of which one hundred and [fourteen] one shall be for replacement only, and hire of such vehicles; operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed six for replacement only; (b) employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), [as amended by] and not to exceed $50,000 for employment under section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a) [, in an amount not to exceed $25,000]; (c) uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131); (d) purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public improvements (5 U.S.C. 565a); (e) expenses of the National Forest Reservation Commission as authorized by section 14 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 514); and (f) acquisition of land and interests therein for sites for administrative purposes, pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a). Except to provide materials required in or incident to research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is available, no part of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. Funds appropriated under this Act shall not be used for acquisition of forest lands under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U.S.C. 513-519, 521), where such land is not within the boundaries of an established national forest or purchase unit nor shall these lands be acquired without approval of the local government concerned. (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $301 thousand; 1965, $310 thousand; 1966, $350 thousand. Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $223 thousand; 1964, $287 thousand; 1965, $287 thousand; 1966, $287 thousand. Payments made for this purpose by purchasers of National Forest timber are used to dispose of or treat slash and other debris that result from cutting operations (16 U.S.C. 490). Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 6. Payments to States, national forests fund.... 11.3 Positions other than permanent.. 2.545 11.5 Other personnel compensation... 2,692 22.0 Transportation of things...- 21.0 Travel and transportation of persons. 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities. 60 25.2 Services of other agencies. 32.0 Lands and structures. 42.0 Insurance claims and indemnities.. Subtotal...... Payment to Minnesota. 95.0 Quarters and subsistence charges. Payments to counties, National Grasslands. 99.0 Total obligations...... Payments to school funds, Arizona and New Mexico..... Payments to States, National Forests Fund. 29,994 |