Excerpt from The Forest Service Cost Reduction and Fiscal Accountability Act of 1998: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 4149, July 29, 1998 The intent, again, of this bill is to help the Forest Service reduce costs, limit overhead, improve outputs of goods and services, and be more accountable to the Congress and to the taxpayer. My goal is to certainly never to punish the Forest Service but to benefit mil lions of Americans who live, work, and recreate in our national for ests every day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.