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AFFIDAVIT OF MARK F. HARTLEY. D.B.A. 



RFFORE THE U.S. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS 



& PUBLIC LANDS 



JULY 18. 1996 



PERSONALLY appeared before me, MARK F. HARTLEY, D.B.A., who being duly 

 sworn makes the following statement under oath: 



Mr. Chairman and members of this honorable committee, I was bom on November 

 30, 1956, in West Palm Beach, Florida. I am presently an Associate Professor of Business 

 Administration at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where I have been a member 

 of the teaching faculty for the past eleven (11) years. I currently hold the National 

 Association of Purchasing Management Chair in the School of Business and Economics at 

 the College. I hold a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Louisiana Tech 

 University, with a major in quantitative analysis and a minor in economics, and have taught 

 business statistics for over fifteen ( 1 5) years. Attached to this Statement is my curriculum 

 vita, academic credentials, employment history, and membership in professional and 

 academic organizations, as well as a list of 34 recent quantitative research studies I have 

 coordinated or performed, and a list of 63 academic publications I have authored or co- 

 authored. 



I have been requested to state my professional opinion as to whether the methodology 

 required by a National Park Service fNPS) written guideline, known as NPS-48, is consistent 

 with generally accepted statistical, accounting and business practices and consequently 

 appropriate for calculating franchise fees payable by Concessioners, or that such 

 methodology is defective, invalid and unreliable for such a purpose. 



