The annual performance plan for Mesa Verde National Park and documents giving details about its appropriated budget and fee revenues for Fiscal Year 2000 are available for public review as required by the National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998.

Highlights of the park’s budget, which funds specific goals in the annual performance plan, include the following:

• $1,691,400 for facility operations and maintenance. This includes maintaining clean restrooms and safe park roads, and providing trails, utility, and grounds programs. An estimated $209,165 in fee revenues will go to rehabilitate the lift station on Chapin Mesa, complete the digital cartographic data set, and install a heating/air-conditioning system in the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum.

• $1,497,672 in special funding to support the park’s Save America’s Treasures program. The program allows teams of archaeologists to document the condition of 600 alcove sites and treat them as necessary to prevent further deterioration. The program includes such activities as documentation, materials analysis, environmental monitoring, and treatments for stone, mortar, and surface finishes.

• $1,387,000 for resource preservation and management. This includes protecting archaeological sites, improving disturbed lands, safeguarding and cataloging museum collections, maintaining databases, protecting natural and cultural resources, having annual consultations with affiliated Native American tribes, and protecting cultural landscapes, historic structures, and endangered or threatened species. An estimated $346,028 in fee revenues retained by the park will address rehabilitation of an historic structure, building an office facility, and fully developing a Geographic Information System facility.

• $1,273,500 for visitor services, including interpretive programs, visitor-protection and emergency services, and concessions operations. An estimated $546,300 in fee revenues will be used to implement a parkwide safety program, upgrade park communications, rehabilitate the Far View Visitor Center to meet accessibility standards, and do planning for the proposed cultural center at the park entrance.

• $915,000 in special funding from franchise fees collected from the park concessionaire, ARAMARK Mesa Verde. Of that, $600,000 will be used to rehabilitate two Civilian Conservation Corps barracks for use as offices for the cultural-resource staff and $315,000 will be used for planning projects, remodeling the Spruce Tree Terrace gift shop and food facility, upgrading the site of the Chuckwagon Meals, and replacing the Wetherill Mesa food facility.

• $174,100 for park administration, including the superintendent’s staff and associated costs.

A copy of the park’s complete annual performance plan will be available soon on the Internet at www.nps.govmeve/.