National Park Service: Better Management and Broader Restructuring
Efforts Are Needed (Testimony, 02/09/95, GAO/T-RCED-95-101).

The National Park Service lacks necessary financial data, internal
controls, and performance measures that would allow the agency to shift
resources among competing goals, rank priorities so that the most
pressing issues receive attention, and link the agency's planning
process directly to budget decisions to better allocate resources.
Although the Park Service's restructuring plan addresses some of the
challenges facing the agency, such as the need to meet the demands of an
expanding system, growing numbers of visitors, and increasingly complex
resource protection problems, the plan does not address the potential to
improve operations through land management collaboration among
Interior's three land management agencies and Agriculture's Forest
Service. It also does not consider which functions or programs could be
eliminated or turned over to state or local governments or to the
private sector.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-95-101
     TITLE:  National Park Service: Better Management and Broader 
             Restructuring Efforts Are Needed
      DATE:  02/09/95
   SUBJECT:  National parks
             Federal property management
             Management information systems
             Interagency relations
             Public lands
             Concessions contracts
             Use taxes
             Cost effectiveness analysis
             Federal agency reorganization
             Internal controls
IDENTIFIER:  National Park System
             National Performance Review
             
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