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Show Motorcycle racing can grind a desert range to pulp. unwieldy measure, we believe its use is necessary to the survival of these areas as we know them. Public Accommodations Recommendation 83: The Federal role in assuming responsibility for public accommodations in areas of national significance should be expanded. The Federal Government should, in some instances, finance and construct adequate facilities with operation and maintenance left to concessioners. The security of investment afforded National Park Service concessioners by the Concessioner Act of 1965 14 should be extended to concessioners operating under comparable conditions elsewhere on the Federal public lands. 14 16 U.S.C. §§ 20-20g (Supp. V, 1970). 208 In areas of national significance administered by the National Park Service, the Federal Government customarily has sought to assure that adequate accommodations are available to the public. The typical device used to carry out this responsibility has been a concession agreement with a private enterprise. Among the types of facilities and services made available by concessions have been hotels, motels, food service, laundries, guide services, beach and bathhouse operations, and boat rentals. The concession system ordinarily includes the regulation of the quality of service offered and the prices charged for these services. In other Federal land areas, public accommodations are generally made available under special-use permits, and are treated as occupancy uses of the lands involved. In these areas, the Federal Government's relationship to the operator is comparable to |
