{ "id": "RS20486", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RS20486", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 100916, "date": "2000-03-08", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:38:25.482941", "title": "Forest Service Accountability in Administering Its Trust Funds", "summary": "The USDA Forest Service has numerous permanently appropriated trust funds and special funds\nthat\nprovide substantial funding independent of the annual appropriations process. Critics have alleged\nabuse of the funds and have sought greater congressional oversight, and the General Accounting\nOffice has testified on the agency's management of some of these accounts. While the Administration\nhas offered few responses to the criticisms of these funds, it has, in its FY2001 budget request,\nproposed creating two new trust funds and combining several existing funds into a new fund with\nexpanded purposes. This report provides an overview of the permanently appropriated Forest\nService accounts and concerns over their use and proposed alternative structures that could provide\ngreater public and congressional oversight and control over permanently appropriated funds. This\nreport will be updated if events warrant.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RS20486", "sha1": "eaa292f6c5d267721744bc3e3ec2ced4a7b77a0d", "filename": "files/20000308_RS20486_eaa292f6c5d267721744bc3e3ec2ced4a7b77a0d.pdf", "images": null }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20000308_RS20486_eaa292f6c5d267721744bc3e3ec2ced4a7b77a0d.html" } ], "topics": [] } ], "topics": [ "Appropriations" ] }