NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, March 29, 1994

Broadcast: By 0900 ET

INCIDENTS

94-127 - Glacier Bay (Alaska) - Follow-up on Aircraft Accident

On March 27th, a commercial crew contracted by the state successfully
removed the Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft from Margerie Glacier with a
logging industry helicopter.  The Sikorsky S61 lifted the Goose from 10,000-
foot level of the glacier and flew it to a waiting tug and barge positioned
north of Russell Island in the West Arm of Glacier Bay.  It was then taken
to Juneau for major repairs.  The plane, which had been on the glacier for
about a week, had six feet of snow on one wing.  The plane suffered
structural damage to both wings and several struts.  Although it's expected
that the classic airplane will be repaired fully, it will be months before
it will be certified to fly again.  [Chuck Young, DR, Bay District, GLBA,
3/28]

94-133 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - MVA with Fatality

S.S., 20, of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, was killed in a motor
vehicle accident just before 1 a.m. on the morning of March 23rd.  S.S. and
three friends had just left a local bar in the Beckley area.  She was
driving up McKendree Road, a narrow, winding, dirt bench road with steep,
cliff-type embankments and no guardrails, when she went off the road and
down a 25-foot embankment.  S.S. was killed on impact; her three passengers
received only minor injuries.  Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in
the incident.  Rangers and state police officers are investigating.  [Rick
Brown, DR, Canyon District, NERI, 3/23]

94-134 - Natchez Trace (Mississippi/Alabama/Tennessee) - MVA with Fatality

Around 9 a.m. on March 26th, M.H., 58, was driving a Ford pickup
southbound on the parkway when, according to witnesses, she began weaving in
the roadway, drifted across the northbound lane, then went off the roadway
and struck several trees.  Her husband, H.T.H., 64, who was
riding in a camper trailer behind the pickup, was killed in the accident. 
Two of H.'s grandchildren were also riding in the camper and were
injured.  M.H. apparently fell asleep while driving.  This is the
twelfth fatality on the parkway in the past 14 months.  All have resulted
from operators "drifting" off the roadway.  Three of the fatalities were
alcohol related.  [Gordon Wissinger, CR, NATR, 3/28]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

IN CONGRESS

The following activities will be taking place in Congress during coming
weeks on matters of interest or consequence to the National Park Service. 
If you would like further information on any of these hearings or bills,
please contact Dottie in WASO Legislation at 202-208-3636.

Upcoming Hearings

4/12 -- House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands (Vento): Hearing on H.R. 2638, to designate
certain public lands in the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers,
national parks and preserve study areas, wild land recovery
areas, and biological connecting corridors.  

4/14 -- House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands (Vento): Hearing on H.R. 3567, to amend the
John F. Kennedy Center Act to transfer operating
responsibilities to the Board of Trustees of the Center.  

4/19 -- House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands (Vento): Hearing on H.R. 1508, to provide for
the reformation of the National Park System; and H.R. 3709, to
reform the process for the study of areas for potential
inclusion in the National Park System.  

4/21 -- House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands (Vento): Mark-up of H.R. 3567 (above); H.R.
743, to amend the NPS Concession Policy Act to foster
competition among concessioners, to improve management of
concessions consistent with the preservation of resources and
the purposes of the NPS; and H.R. 1493, H.R. 2146 and S. 208, to
reform the concessions policies of the NPS.

4/26 -- House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands (Vento): Hearing on H.R. 3593, to establish the
Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ohio) as an
affiliated area of the NPS; and H.R. 2633, to revise the
boundaries of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage
Corridor (Massachusetts and Rhode Island).

5/11 -- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related
Agencies (Byrd): Hearing on NPS FY 95 budget request.  Witness:
Director Kennedy.

Recent Actions

House -- Introduced: H.R. 4147 (McNulty), to establish the Hudson and
Mohawk Rivers National Heritage Corridor (New York); H.R. 4157
(Velazquez), to establish the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
National Historic Site (New York); H.R. 4163 (Williams), to
enable the NPS to regulate or prohibit scenic commercial
overflights at units of the National Park System.

-- Reported favorably out of subcommittee: N/A.

-- Reported favorably out of committee: H.R. 2843, to establish
Wheeling National Heritage Area (West Virginia), as amended;
H.R. 3498, Great Falls Historic District (New Jersey), as
amended.

-- Passed: H.R. 4034, to amend the Urban Park and Recreation
Recovery Act of 1978 to authorize grants for the expansion of
recreation opportunities for at risk youth in urban areas with a
high prevalence of crime.

Senate -- The Senate has adjourned until Tuesday, April 12th.

-- Introduced: S. 1975 (Moseley-Braun), to establish a grant
program to restore and preserve historic buildings at
historically black colleges and universities; S. 1980
(Johnston), to establish the Cane River Creole National
Historical Park and the Cane River National Heritage Area
(Louisiana).

-- Reported favorably out of subcommittee: N/A.

-- Reported favorably out of committee: S. 1341, to establish
Wheeling National Heritage Area (West Virginia), as amended;
H.R. 1305, to make boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous
changes to authorities and programs of the NPS, as amended; S.
1586, to establish New Orleans Jazz NHP (Louisiana), as amended.

-- Passed: S. 208, to reform the concessions policies of the NPS,
with a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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