Mesa Verde National Park’s annual performance plan and documents providing details about the appropriated budget and fee revenues for Fiscal Year 2001 are available for public review, as required by law.

Highlights of the budget, which funds goals in the annual performance plan, include the following:

• $1,096,423 for resource preservation and management. This includes protecting archaeological sites, improving disturbed lands, safeguarding museum collections, cataloguing collection items, maintaining databases, protecting natural and cultural resources, providing for annual consultations with the affiliated Native American tribes, and protecting cultural landscapes, historic structures, and endangered, extirpated, or threatened species.

A sum of $554,078 in estimated fee revenues retained by the park will address rehabilitation of a historic structure, building a research and resource-management office facility, and fully developing a Geographic Information System facility.

• $1,625,108 for visitor services. This will address providing interpretive programs (tours of cliff dwellings on Chapin Mesa), visitor-protection and emergency services, and concessions operations. A sum of $324,505 in estimated fee revenues will be used to implement a comprehensive parkwide safety program, upgrade park communications and replace obsolete base-station radios, rehabilitate the Far View Visitor Center to meet accessibility standards, and for planning on the proposed cultural center at the park entrance.

• $1,405,400 for facility operations and maintenance. This will address maintaining clean restrooms and safe park roads, and providing trails, utility, and grounds programs. An amount of $153,492 in estimated fee revenues will address rehabilitating the lift station on Chapin Mesa, completing the digital cartographic data set, and installing a heating and air-conditioning system in the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum.

• $444,469 for park administration, including the superintendent’s staff and associated costs.

• $167,855 in special funding to support the park’s Save America’s Treasures program. This will allow teams of archaeologists to evaluate and document the condition of 600 alcove sites and treat these sites as needed to prevent further deterioration of plasters and surface finishes.

This program includes a broad range of research and field activities including documentation, materials analysis, environmental monitoring, and treatments for stone, mortar, and surface finishes.

• $500,000 in special funding from franchise fees collected from the park concessionaire, ARAMARK Mesa Verde. Of that total amount, $300,000 will be used for cultural-resource preservation to rehabilitate two Civilian Conservation Corps barracks for use as offices for the cultural-resource staff.

Another $200,000 of the total amount will be used for planning projects, to remodel and upgrade the Spruce Tree Terrace gift shop and food-service facility, to upgrade the site of the Chuckwagon Meals, and to replace the Wetherill Mesa food-service facility.

A copy of the park’s complete annual performance plan, prepared in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act, will be available soon on the Internet at www.nps.gov/meve/.

The goals described in the performance plan are derived from the 1997 National Park Service Strategic Plan, which establishes a performance management process for the service and incorporates the requirement of GPRA.

The plan is available on the NPS Internet home page at www.nps.gov.