and a carefully planned maintenance and replacement schedule. Is there evidence of this? Plans should be in writing. An example of evidence is the use of Camping and Engineering Service Maintenance Checklist or some similar plan, including documented job cards, etc. Appraisal team to review written maintenance program. Reference: Camp Maintenance Management, No. 3688.

*108. There is a complete equipment inventory for all departments and an effective system of issuance and control.

Actually review these records. Do they show starting inventories and record status of items periodically during the season? Are staff members held accountable for the inventory through an accepted procedure of issuance and control? Copies of opening and closing inventories should be in safekeeping at the council office.

*109. There is a strict and orderly method for handling trading post
stock, cash, and inventory with supporting records.

Proper records include inventory, stock control records, and daily cash reports.
There should be evidence that these records are properly maintained.

*110. There is a weekly food cost-control record and a complete weekly inventory of commissary supplies.

A weekly food cost record is necessary to sound management. This record should be based upon a complete weekly food inventory. These reports should be reviewed by the Scout executive. This record is kept even though only staff is fed. A daily food cost accounting may be part of this system.

*111. There is a camp operating budget and an effective cost-andbudget-control system.

A camp operating budget approved by the executive board is essential to good business management. A budget and cost control system is part of the operating practices of the camp. Evidence of budget control should be produced by the camp director.

*112. There is a written conservation plan prepared by a Federal or state agency or equivalent and evidence that it is being carried out. The plan and evidence were reviewed by the appraisal team. Refer to Managing the Council Outdoor Program, No. 12001. To determine if the council camp properties have a conservation plan, apply these seven questions. If all seven answers are "yes" then the council has met the requirements for item 112. Seven "yes" answers, and you have a plan.

1. Plan written with the assistance of appropriate Federal or state agency or qualified professional conservationist from private business or organization.

2. Plan includes basic soil capability map and interpretations of basic soils information for use of land for recreation, including intensive camping sites, roads, intensive-play areas, waste disposal, hiking trails, etc.

3. Plan includes layout and program for rotating patrol sites according to recommendation of Camping and Engineering Service and soil conservationists.

4. Plan includes vegetation management plan (grassland or forest).

5. Plan includes wildlife management plan.

6. Where applicable, plan includes fish management plan.

7. Plan includes a 5- to 10-year schedule for accomplishment, with a year-by-year breakdown of projects with cost estimates.

*113. A systematic plan of camp promotion is in effect for next year. The camp director discusses the troop's plans for next year with each troop leader.

Camp director or program director meets with each Scoutmaster before he leaves for home to have him sign up for camp next year. The council has a yearround promotion plan with goals set for each district. Review this plan with camping chairman.

114. The council provides a way for individual boys to camp on a provi-
sional troop basis with qualified adult leadership provided.

Provisional camping is an accepted practice for providing for an extended camp-
ing experience for specialty camps. It makes possible a camping experience for
Scouts who belong to troops that the council has failed to help recruit their own
leadership for camp. Non-Scouts can also be given a good experience.
Adult-21 years or older-camp Scoutmasters are required for credit.

115. This council has a plan to provide camperships for Scouts unable to
pay.

Review the plan. Give credit when funds are available and allocated to needy
Scouts in a manner that will not offend them or the family.

116. This council has a plan to bring in needy non-Scouts and provide a camping experience for them.

This plan should be reviewed and approved each year by the council executive board. Outreach Camping, No. 20-101, available from BSA is the best basic text for detailed information.

117. A representative group of Scoutmasters and Scouts were interviewed to discuss Scouting attitudes and camp values.

Report findings in attachment to this National Standard Camp Rating.

YOUTH CAMP SAFETY ACT

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1974

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR,

OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR,

Bear Mountain, N.Y.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:00 a.m., at the Bear Mountain Inn, Bear Mountain, N.Y., Hon. Dominick V. Daniels, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding.

Members present: Representatives Daniels and Peyser.

Staff members present: Daniel H. Krivet, counsel; Alexandra Kisla, clerk; Yvonne Franklin, minority legislative associate.

Mr. DANIELS. The Select Subcommittee on Labor will come to order.

Today we continue hearings on youth camp safety legislation, H.R. 1486, a bill to provide for the development and implementation of programs for youth camp safety.

Each year parents send nearly 10 million youngsters to summer camps across the country with the belief that their children will be. constantly protected by trained counselors and will live in sanitary and healthful surroundings.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in too many of our summer camps and our other outdoor recreation facilities. There have been many horror stories brought to my attention as a result of hearings I have conducted in 1968, 1969, 1971, and this year, yet there are only six States that have what I consider to be comprehensive youth camp safety laws.

They are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, and my own State of New Jersey. We have discovered that there is often a credibility gap between camp literature and the actual facts relating to whether or not a camp is a safe place for young

sters.

We know there are many latent dangers which to the untrained eye of parents are impossible to identify prior to the opening of camp, and visiting days during the season hardly give parents the opportunity to thoroughly investigate any possible hazards to their youngsters.

To ameliorate this situation I have introduced a H.R. 1486, which is cosponsored by my colleague from New York, Congressman Peter Peyser of the 23rd Congressional District, which provides that the Secretary of HEW shall promulgate minimum youth camp safety standards after hearings and consultation with a broad. representative advisory council from the camping industry.

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