Mi Gra Yello Teto 1929. Amo M. 八 t struct the road, but you cannot rimarily by people who make use of Stone and the Grand Teton? llustrated here [exhibiting map], no The Yellowstone entrance is to the An past Jackson Lake, on US 187 and this point [indicating] near Jenny Lake, Lake, and then back to this point where Highway 187; otherwise the traveler will is point [indicating] and continue north. o doubt about its being necessary, but I quesnclude it in this bill. We cannot if anybody .. I want to make clear is, this is not a highway that al public, other than for purposes of visiting the That is correct. MAY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, N. C. AND TENN. Now the next is the Great Smoky Mountain National JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE AAY. The following justification is offered for the record: Mountains National Park, in North Carolina and Tennessee, is approximately equal parts by the boundary between the two States. was authorized by act approved on May 22, 1926, as amended, and proximately 439,365.875 acres. The park was dedicated on September ..of $743,265.29 was made available by the Second Deficiency Appropriafiscal year 1938 (Public, No. 723, 75th Cong.), for the acquisition of ately 26,000 acres of land. A total of 19.207.73 acres has been acquired. e acquisition of 4,665.53 additional acres is either in progress or in conion proceedings, leaving a balance of 2,126.74 acres still to be contracted ader pending negotiations. Addition to the extensive improvements and developments being accomplished Civilian Conservation Corps, a main administration building in the Tensce section and a subadministration building in the North Carolina section recently been completed with Public Works allocations of $93,000 and .000, respectively. Additional funds are essential for maintaining and opating the additional facilities and for administering and protecting the provements. Amount included in 1942 Budget__- Increase, 1942 over 1941. $125, 100 101, 670 23,430 The sum of $900 is requested for 6 months' temporary ranger-naturalist services during the peak travel season to assist with the interpretative program. The public demand for information, lectures, and nature hikes has expanded rapidly. The sum of $100 will be required for operating and maintaining two pick-up trucks and for travel and miscellaneous incidental expenses. An increase of $3,720 is requested to employ 2 additional permanent rangers to be stationed at strategic locations in the park-1 at Smokemont to handle the large volume of traffic and to supervise the public campground and the Newfound Gap and Forney Ridge parking areas and comfort stations, and 1 at Cades Cove to supervise the large campground and fish-rearing pools. The services of a permanent ranger are not now available at Smokemont, the most important section on the North Carolina side and the one most frequented by visitors. The employees will also act as district rangers in supervising the work in 6 warden districts, which include 5 fire-lookout towers. Ever since the park was taken over for protection, the number of rangers has not been adequate to cope with protection problems. The acreage of the park has increased, and there has been a tremendous increase of visitors (from 154,000 in 1931 to 860,960 in 1940), but there has not been a corresponding increase in the ranger force. Because of this condition, it has taken practically all of the time of the rangers and several of the wardens to care for visitors during the summer months, leaving little time for patrol work. Poaching and illegal hunting and fishing have increased, with only about 50 percent of the violators apprehended. There are approximately 150 leaseholders within the park boundaries, some of whom, together with a certain number of residents in the immediate vicinity of the park, need close surveillance to prevent poaching, incendiarism, and other infractions of regulations. The loss resulting from one serious fire would be greater than the amount represented by several years' salaries of all wardens and rangers recommended for employment. A total of 12 wardens is needed to provide adequate protection. Funds are now available for 10 wardens. The sum of $2,400 is requested for 1942 for the 2 additional wardens required. The chief ranger will be stationed in the secondary administration building in Smokemont, N. C., and it is essential that a clerk-stenographer, at $1,400 (net) per annum, be employed to perform the incidental clerical work, such as maintaining office records, typing, filing, etc. It is urgent that the clerical assistance be provided so that the ranger personnel may be relieved of clerical work and devote their full time to the important protection problems. An increase of $840 is requested to provide for a permanent mechanic. The present base appropriation includes $840 for temporary mechanic services. There are 29 pieces of automotive equipment, which travel approximately 30,000 miles per month, and numerous pieces of special road machinery such as graders, rollers, tar kettle, etc. The motorized equipment consists of pick-up trucks used for ranger patrol; telephone, radio, and road maintenance equipment; and heavy equipment units such as dump trucks, tractors, asphalt distributors, etc. The units are subjected to heavy use over rough, mountainous roads and frequent attention is necessary so that they may be kept in proper operating condition. The sum of $1,080 is needed to employ an additional permanent janitor for cleaning and taking care of the secondary administration building at Smokemont. The full time of the permanent janitor now available is required in the main administration building at Gatlinburg. Jaitor services are essential to clean the offices in the secondary administration building and to take care of the toilet facilities. An increase of $600 is recommended to provide $500 for operating and repairing pick-up trucks assigned to the rangers and wardens and $100 for travel expenses so that the chief ranger and two assistant chief rangers may cover assigned areas adequately and give proper supervision to the protection organization. An increase of $1,860 is requested to employ a permanent electrician. By the estimate year the administrative area will contain 11⁄2 miles of 2,300-volt, 3-phase, and three-fourth mile of 2,300-volt, single-phase service, one-half mile of underground cable, together with switches, 4 transformers, and necessary cut-out fuses. The park structures requiring electrical services consist of 49 sets of quarters, 8 public comfort stations with 150 toilet fixtures, and 2 new administration buildings, including lights, heating units, and other fixtures. To maintain the electric system properly, the services of an electrician are essential to repair electric wiring and fixtures and to make inspections necessary to insure proper safety conditions. There are 250 miles of class A and 160 miles of class B trails in the park, many of which are too remote for maintenance by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Prior allotments have not been sufficient to maintain the remote trails properly for the large number of visitors. An increase of $580 is asked for trail maintenance during the 1942 fiscal year. The grounds around the new main and secondary administration buildings and the utility and residential areas will be graded, planted, and landscaped by the Civilian Conservation Corps. An increase of $1,200 will be required to employ a permanent laborer to maintain the grounds and to purchase seed, fertilizer, planting materials, etc. The sum of $3,000 (net) is requested to employ three radio operators, at $1,020 each per annum, for radio stations in the park that must be operated from 12 to 18 hours daily. During the fire season lookouts will operate additional sets and be paid from fire-prevention funds. The sum of $150 is requested to employ a temporary laborer to assist in stringing telephone wires, setting poles, and performing other miscelleaneous maintenance duties. The sum of $250 is asked for purchasing supplies and materials, such as wire, batteries, insulators, and other parts required in operating the communication system. The allotment of $1,750 now available is inadequate to take care of the sanitation needs. From April through October the comfort stations at Newfound Gap, Forney Ridge, and the campgrounds are used heavily. There is no other feature which results in more adverse public criticism than the improper care of sanitary facilities. To keep the comfort stations in a sanítary condition, it is necessary that a laborer be assigned to each of the Newfound Gap and Forney Ridge stations during the heavy-travel season. Caretakers are required at the Smokemont and Chimney campgrounds and for policing the transmountain and Clingmans Dome highway. An increase of $1,000 is rquested for additional labor and supplies for maintaining the comfort stations and for operating trucks used in policing the campgrounds and highways. An increase of $300 is needed for supplies and materials, such as coal, kerosene, electric light bulbs, etc., necessary for operating 49 sets of quarters, including the 16 cabins which have been rehabilitated for use by wardens. An increase of $4,050, plus $5,200 in the account, will provide $9,250 for the purchase of equipment. The sum of $750 is proposed for replacing a 1935-model sedan which was driven 45,000 miles to October 1, 1940. The old car overheats and has had rough usage over mountainous roads. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in road maintenance zone 5, which includes Mammoth Cave National Park and Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park in Kentucky, and Kings Mountain National Military Park in North Carolina. Mobile units of equipment located in the park are utilized in the other areas when the units can be spared. The available equipment is neither adequate nor sufficient for the proper maintenance of the 58.2 miles of modern highways and the 221 miles of truck trails and secondary roads in the park. Past appropriations have provided for the purchase of only a very small number of equipment units. The park is one of the leading visitor centers of the national park system, and it is essential that sufficient equipment and maintenance funds be provided to keep existing roads in proper condition. After a thorough study of equipment needs by Service engineers, taking into consideration information furnished by the Tennessee and North Carolina State Highway Departments, it was determined that, in addition to the replacement of old units, certain additional equipment is needed to accomplish proper road maintenance. The sum of $5,000 is proposed for the 1942 fiscal year for purchasing a 5-ton, four-wheel drive, Diesel truck. An amount of $2,400 is included for the replacement of two 1937-model pick-up trucks which have traveled more than 50,000 miles each, and the purchase of two new pick-ups for the two additional wardens proposed for employment. The sum of $600 is included for the purchase of ranger and quarters equipment, such as handcuffs, first-aid kits, heaters, ranges, and kerosene lamps. Circulator heaters are needed to replace worn-out heaters in the warden cabins. The remaining $500 is a recurring amount required for the annual replacement of miscellaneous tools and equipment. Mr. SCRUGHAM. There is an increase in this item of $23,430: Give us an explanation of that. Mr. DEMARAY. The park now contains 439,365.87 acres and was dedicated by the President September 2, 1940. The Second Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1938, authorized the acquiring of 26,000 acres of land, and this new park is gradually being built up. Mr. SCRUGHAM. This is for taking care of the new development, principally? Mr. DEMARAY. It is for new developments and, wisely, this committee has gone slowly in building it up to meet the requirements. It has the greatest travel of any park and we are sadly lacking in adequate facilities to keep it up. Mr. LEAVY. Is any of this money for the acquisition of private holdings within the park boundaries? Mr. DEMARAY. No, sir; this is purely for administration, maintenance, and operation. And, as you will note, there is a very detailed justification of each one of the items for which additional funds are necessary. HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, HAWAII Mr. SCRUGHAM. What about the Hawaii National Park, Hawaii? JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE Mr. DEMARAY. The following justification is offered for the record: Hawaii National Park was established by act of August 1, 1916, has an area of 176,451.3 acres, with authorized additions totaling 38,037.18 acres, and is located on two islands. The section on the island of Hawaii contains approximately 11 miles of seacoast, two periodically active volcanoes (Kilauea and Mauna Loa), a volcanic ash desert, and considerable areas of junglelike, semitropical forests. The Haleakala section on the island of Maui contains a huge, awe-inspiring, dormant crater, situated at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Located midway of the Pacific Ocean, the park is visited by travelers from many nations of the world. Amount included in 1942 Budget_. Increase, 1942 over 1941__. $73, 665 62, 000 11, 665 An increase of $600, plus a savings of $2,000, effected by employing a scientist at $3.800 in lieu of a principal scientist at $5,800, will provide $2,600 for employing a permanent assistant engineer. The infrequent assignment of an engineer from the mainland does not permit the accomplishment of urgent work to be done, and the costs of such assignments are almost as great as the cost of a full-time engineer in the park, considering salary, travel expenses, and per diem subsistence allowance for the personnel detailed. The Government has approximately $1,200,000 invested in roads, buildings, and other improvements within the park. Rapidly changing ground surfaces, particularly in the Kilauea section, require careful engineering measurements and study. The field work of locating lines for trails, roads, and electric and telephone systems necessitates the services of an engineer so that relocations and alterations may be avoided when displacements in surfaces occur. An additional 80 is needed for engineering supplies and materials. The sum of $2,000 is requested to establish a new permanent assistant chief ranger position. The act of June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 781-785), authorizes the addition of 55,070 acres of land to the park. Since the passage of the act approximately 17,405 acres have been acquired. The authorized additions contain many ancient Hawaiian burial caves, petroglyphs, Hawaiian temples, and historic human footprints which require protection from vandalism. The activities of the ranger force also have been greatly expanded because of the marked increase in the use of park facilities. The acquisition of additional land and the expansion of the ranger duties to meet the public demands necessitate the employment of a permanent employee to assist the chief ranger in planning the ranger work, directing patrols, and preparing evidence in arrest cases. An increase of $75 is asked for purchasing additional ranger supplies and materials, principally gasoline. New areas added to the park necessitate additional and expanded patrol. Most of the patrol is accomplished by pick-up trucks. The sum of $15 is requested to cover the increased costs of commercial repairs to trucks and equipment used by the rangers. Much of the equipment is old, and more frequent repairs are required. |