WSP10947

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 9/1/1971
• Author: PSIAC
• Title: Report of Recreation Technical Subcommittee - Reservoir Related Recreation at Federally Constructed Projects - September 1971
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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"Social Benefits Evaluation from Federal Water Resource

Projects" is the subject of another Recreation Subcommittee paper.

That paper described the social significance of outdoor recreation

and attempts to assign a monetary value to that benefit.

6. Objectives and Responsibilities
The following agencies are all concerned with recreation.

Their primary objectives, responsibilities, and concern for recre-

ation are many and varied.
National Park Service

Areas of national significance, historical sites, spectacu-

lar natural scenery, areas of outstanding archeological and historic

value, and areas including habitat of wildlife are usually managed

by the National Park Service. This agency's responsibility is to
regulate the use of these areas to leave these values unimpaired

for future generations.

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Forest Service

The Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960 provided the

management of the National Forests lands for outdoor recreation,

range, timber, and watershed. Reservoir related recreation is but

one of the many beneficial uses of National Forest lands.

Bureau of Land Management

In 1964 the Congress passed the Multiple Use and
Classification Act, which directed the Secretary of the Interior

to classify public domain for either disposal or retention under

continued multiple-use management. Those lands classified for

retention are to be managed under the multiple-use concept. The

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