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Table FS-65. Facilities Detail Table (thousands of dollars) Facilities Maintenance and Construction - Justification of Changes 2026). The FY 2027 Budget focuses Forest Service's efforts to maintain safe recreation facilities, perform required maintenance and management of Forest Service-owned dams, and invest in Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) for Forest Service-owned facilities on the highest priorities. The Forest Service will continue to use the National Asset Management Program to select out-year projects that meet the Forest Service's highest priority facility needs, with the focus on emergency safety-related needs. Of this decrease, $2 million will be requested by DOI as part of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Facilities Maintenance and Construction - Status of Programs The discretionary Facilities program funds the costs associated with recreation facility and site maintenance, maintenance/repair and management of Forest Service owned dams, and The Facilities Maintenance and Construction program supports the Forest Service's more systems, and more than 1,500 dams. The program also supports six tree nurseries and two seed extractories, which provide locally adapted plants and seeds for reforestation projects and assured sources of desirable species and stock types. Capital improvement funding for facilities allows for necessary maintenance and new construction, replacements, and The Forest Service recreation facilities support a broad range of accessible recreation facilities and sites in the country, including campgrounds, picnic areas, visitor centers, ski areas, trailheads, shooting ranges, and interpretive sites. Recreation facility maintenance funds are primarily used to address ongoing infrastructure maintenance needs within recreation sites and chip away at the $1.2 billion deferred maintenance backlog to provide a safe environment for the visiting public. Over 3,000 dams are sited on National Forest Service lands, including approximately 1,500 that are Forest Service owned, special use permitted, and owned by other entities and the remaining owned by other entities or under special use permit. Forest Service dams serve multiple uses across the Forest Service for communities. Approximately 50 percent of all Forest Service owned dams are for recreation and/or wildlife management, 15 percent are used for fire protection, five percent for irrigation, and ten percent for flood control and/or water supply. The remaining dams support fisheries, mining tailings, debris control, and hydroelectric uses. In FY 2025, the Forest Service completed high value projects at a cost of over $8 million. The Coeur D'Alene Nursery Greenhouse Replacement project replaced nine 1970's greenhouses and a headhouse structure with new facilities that will optimize operations resulting in a 38 percent increase of conifer seedling production and reduction of the maintenance and operating costs. The project cost approximately $4.2 million resulting in a The Kenai Lake Work Center Water System and Wastewater System Upgrade project replaces the site's water system and centralized the wastewater system to improve operational efficiencies at the site that supports the management work on the Seward Ranger District, Chugach National Forest. The cost of the project was approximately $2.5 million resulting in a $1.8 million reduction in deferred maintenance. The recreation facilities program maintained the infrastructure of the 30,000 recreation sites including providing potable drinking water and 17,000 restroom facilities. The Timberline Lodge waterline replacement project involved replacing failing waterlines within the historic lodge that threatened the facility. It eliminated $2.5 million in deferred maintenance, making the facility safe to operate providing the recreating public a great experience. Timberline Lodge, a designated National Historic Landmark located on the Mt. Hood National Forest, was built in 1937 and is one of the only Forest Service owned facilities that is actively operated as a year-round, all season mountain lodge. The Flaming Gorge Water System Treatment plant project involved upgrading critical components of the drinking water treatment system to ensure safe drinking water for the recreating public at this high use location that stretches from the Wyoming high deserts to the forested slopes of Utah's Uinta Mountains. The project eliminated $100,000 in deferred The dam program has maintained its regulatory compliance for dam safety exercises and emergency action plans over the last year (approximately 75 percent compliant, up from less than five percent six years ago). This has increased awareness and response to dam safety incidents across national forests. The program demonstrated its emergency response and public safety capabilities in April 2025, during an intense storm event affecting multiple National Forests in the Southern and Eastern Regions. Forest Service dam safety engineers used the DamWatch application, early warning systems and field inspections to monitor, warn and mitigate issues with dams during the storm event. The Forest Service activated response for nine Emergency Action Plans and triggered external alerts to downstream emergency response agencies. The program continues to steadily increase its completion of risk assessments of high hazard dams, leading to prioritization of dam repairs based on risk. The overarching facility program objectives are to continue to prioritize administrative facility, recreation site, and dam maintenance and

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