General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony: Recreation Fees: Information on Forest Service Management of Revenue from the Fee Demonstration Program.

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Recreation Fees: Information on Forest Service Management of Revenue from the Fee Demonstration Program.

GAO-03-470 April 25, 2003

Since 1996, federal land management agencies have collected over $900 million in recreation fees from the public under an experimental initiative called the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. Under the trial program, the Congress authorized the four federal land management agencies, including the Forest Service, to charge fees to visitors and to retain the revenues for use in addition to other appropriated funds. The ...