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The Recreation Advisory Council has served as a useful forum for 

 airing and adjusting overlapping and conflicting jurisdictional 

 problems. 



1. In line with a recommendation made by the Bureau of Out- 

 door Recreation, the Council was instrumental in bringing about an 

 agreement on which of two Federal agencies would administer the 

 recreation development of Federal lands surrounding the Allegheny 

 Reservoir in western Pennsylvania. This action provides a prece- 

 dent for resolving similar situations in the future. 



2. The Council considered and concurred in recommendations 

 subsequently made to the President by Secretary Udall and myself 

 related to establishment of the Oregon Dunes National Seashore and 

 establishment of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity and Flaming 

 Gorge National Recreation Areas; and our recommendation that 

 there be joint examination of Federal lands in the North Cascade 

 Mountains in Washington. 



3. The Council also played an important part in implementation 

 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act. It has taken three 

 actions: (a) It submitted to the President the Executive Order, 

 which the President subsequently issued, to permit implementation of 

 the Act; (b) It reviewed and concurred in the standards for recrea- 

 tion user fees which were subsequently issued by regulation of the 

 Secretary of the Interior; and (c) It adopted the standard definition 

 of visitor day for reporting recreation use, needed in connection with 

 the allocation of funds for Federal projects under the Act. 



4. Further, the Recreation Advisory Council serves as a forum 

 where coordination measures can be reviewed before they are made 

 effective. 



In addition, the following achievements merit attention: 



1 . Since the Council's policy statement, Congress has established 

 the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Fire Island National 

 Seashore. Establishment of several other national recreation areas 

 is pending. Congress is giving appropriate consideration to the cri- 

 teria recommended by the Council. 



2. In connection with the Federal Water Project Recreation Act, 

 which has passed the Senate and is pending in the House, the House 

 Committee Report directs that definitions approved by the Recrea- 

 tion Advisory Council shall be followed in determining which areas 

 are appropriate for Federal administration under that Act. 



3. The Council's recommendation on development of a national 



