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. maintenance within the State from which such proceeds are derived. Such amounts are merged with this appropriation for obligational purposes. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) Identification code 78,672 31.0 Equipment.... 11.1 11.3 11.5 FOREST SERVICE Total personnel compensation.... 21.0 Travel and transportation of persons.. 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities. 25.2 Services of other agencies. Personnel compensation: 99.0 32.0 Lands and structures.. Total personnel compensation.......... Total obligations, allotment accounts.. Obligations are distributed as follows: 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 Total number of permanent positions miles being built in 1965. ALLOTMENT ACCOUNTS Full-time equivalent of other positions.. Of the amounts received annually from national forest activities, 10% is available under the permanent appropriation Roads and trails for States, for construction and Personnel Summary FOREST SERVICE Total number of permanent positions.. Average GS salary Average salary of ungraded positions.. Average number of all employees. 1964 actual 20,376 561 30,701 76,453 76,195 $6,986 $5,749 36 2 20 8.9 $8,635 37,910 2,670 1,879 2,281 2,320 2,878 2,900 2,401 1,470 1,500 343 13,078 8,740 350 20,641 2,200 25,500 115 73 42 4 2 1965 1966 estimate estimate 23,183 13,161 714 37,058 2,611 94,108 93,829 36 20 8.9 $9,111 23,800 13,410 700 96,420 -285 96,135 $7,286 $5,767 134 10 42 4 2 96,135 1,500 3,645 2,960 6,265 7.4 8.9 $9,229 124 7 3 SPECIAL ACTS 1964 actual 33 4 37 3336 1965 estimate 551 602 539 462 4 1 5 7.4 $6,986 $5,749 1,001 1965 estimate 23 23 2 2 3 509 539 3 0 3 7.4 $7.214 $5,775 (Special fund) For acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil er flood damage orginating within the exterior boundaries of t ing national forests, in accordance with the provisions of t ing Acts, authorizing annual appropriations of forest re such purposes, and in not to exceed the following amou such receipts, Cache National Forest, Utah, Act of May (52 Stat. 347), as amended, $10,000; Uinta and Wasatch Forests, Utah, Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), as $20,000; Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, Act of June (52 Stat. 1205), as amended, $8,000; [Angeles Nationa California, Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 299), $8,000; National Forest in San Diego County, California, Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 297-298), $8,000; San Bernardino and National Forests in Riverside County, California, Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 699), $8,000;] Sequoia National Forest, C Act of June 17, 1940 (54 Stat. 402), [$8,000]$32,000; in all Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be acquisition of any land which is not within the boundari national forests and/or for the acquisition of any land wi approval of the local government concerned. Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) (Departm CACHE NATIONAL FOREST Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) Program by activities: Acquisition of lands for Cache National Forest (program costs, funded)1. Change in selected resources 2. Total obligations (object class 32.0) Financing: 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year.. 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year. New obligational authority... Relation of obligations to expenditures: 71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures).. 72 Obligated balance, start of year.. 74 Obligated balance, end of year.... 90 Expenditures. Identification code 05-96-1123-0-1-402 Program by activities: Acquisition of lands for Wasatch National Forest, Utah (program costs, funded) 1.. Change in selected resources 2. Total obligations.. Financing: 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year.. 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year.. 1964 actual 40 New obligational authority (appropriation) Relation of obligations to expenditures: 71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures).. 72 Obligated balance, start of year.. 74 Obligated balance, end of year.. 90 Expenditures. 1964 actual 65 -40 25 -51 5 175 180 -14 70 250 26 180 -175 4 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $65 thousand; 1965, $40 thousand. 2 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. [ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST] [For the acquisition of land in the Wasatch National Forest, Utah, in accordance with the Act of September 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 545-546), $150,000, to remain available until expended.] (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 1965 estimate -26 1965 estimate 40 -14 26 395 -175 220 -70 150 220 175 -50 345 26 14 40 1966 estimate 1966 estimate 50 50 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) 1964 actual Identification code 05-96-1123-0-1-402 1965 1966 estimate estimate 1,000 4 216 220 998 321 -322 997 1 1 7.4 $7,214 $5,775 998 1,018 1,018 1965 1966 estimate estimate -18 0 0 1,000 7.4 $7,286 $5,767 1,018 322 -325 1,015 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 325 -325 1,000 1 Includes capital outlay as follows: 1964, $6 thousand; 1965, $3 thousand; 1966, $3 thousand. 2 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1963, $76 thousand; 1964, $56 thousand; 1965, $56 thousand; 1966, $56 thousand. 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.) |