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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
DENVER, CO
FSM 2700 - SPECIAL USES MANAGEMENT
R2 Supplement No. 2700-93-5
Effective July 15, 1993
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements to this title are numbered consecutively. Post by
document name. Remove entire document and replace with this supplement.
Retain this transmittal as the first page of this document. The last supplement to
this Manual was Supplement 2700-93-4 to 2710.
Page Code
2715.14c--1 through 2715.14c--4
2715.24-2715.25
Superseded Sheets
2
1
Supplements Covered
R2 Supplement 113, 08/86
R2 Supplement 125, 11/89
New
Document Name
2715.11d-2715.14
(Number of Pages)
5
Digest:
Updates to electronic format and corrects parent text references.
ELIZABETH ESTILL
Regional Forester
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TITLE 2700 - LAND USES MANAGEMENT
2715 - FEES
2715.11c - Selecting or Developing Factors to be Used.
4. Determining Sales and Other Revenue.
a. Sales.
(7) Forest Supervisors shall use the following criteria for GRFS permits
not authorized by the Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 in approving each
permittee's policy statement indicating the nature and extent of their
planned gratuity program and who will be the recipients. Gratuities
issued by a permittee's subleasee must be identified and covered in the
permittee's gratuity policy statement. The proposed gratuity statement
must indicate how gratuities will be recorded and values calculated.
Approvals shall be in writing and filed in the appropriate special use
folders. Once a permittee's gratuity policy is approved and on file with the
Forest Supervisor, the policy does not have to be annually approved
unless it changes. However, the permittee must provide annual
notification to the Forest Supervisor of continuance of the approved
gratuity policy.
b. Exempt Gratuities. The following gratuity practices and
corresponding recipients must be accounted for, but are exempt from
Forest Service fee calculation purposes. Gratuities issued to individuals
who are only incidentally performing the following activities are not
exempt. The value of the gratuity will be exempted from gross income for
fee calculation purposes so long as the recipient is engaged in the exempt
activity.
(1) Direct promotion of Public Safety.
On-duty ski patrol personnel.
Government and industrial safety representatives on official business.
On-duty medical personnel.
(2 ) Activities that will directly and significantly increase sales through
the publicity or promotion of the permittee's permitted activity.
Members of the news media who are on official assignment including
newspaper, magazines, TV and radio personnel.
Photographers and advertisers on official business, whose work about the
permittee's product is promotional and will be published.
Transportation industry personnel such as travel agents, tour operators,
and sales representatives from airline, bus, rail, and car rental companies
directly responsible for promoting the permitted activity.
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Group and tour leaders; for example, tour association travel organizers,
and ski club trip chairpersons.
Those involved in competing, judging and officiating organized
competitive or exhibition events.
(3) Officials responsible for inspection and administration of the
permitted activity.
The following individuals are examples of those who are exempt only
while in the act of performing inspection and administrative duties:
Owners (proprietors and partners),
Corporation directors,
Company employees with inspection and administration duties,
Government employees, except Forest Service employees,
Forest Service employees on official business responsible for
administration of the permitted area as designated in writing by the
Forest Supervisor.
(4) Other.
On-duty area ski school instructors.
Managers and other key employees of similar operations visiting for
consultation, technology transfer or training at the direction of their
employer.
Lodging and/or meals furnished or sold at a discount to selected
employees when they are required to live on the permitted area primarily
in a caretaker, emergency readiness, or security capacity. This does not
include dormitory lodging in the development area.
Gratuities to those in organized special group programs designed to
introduce handicapped and disadvantaged persons to the permitted
activity. Individuals who receive gratuities (that is, complimentary ski lift
tickets, etc.) outside of the approved special group programs are nonexempt.
All other gratuities offered by the permittee shall be accounted for and the
value thereof shall be included in the sales subject to fee calculation.
c. Non-Exempt. The Forest Service does not prohibit or discourage special discounts, promotion
schemes, or permittee freedom to extend special privilege to anyone. The policy does require that all
non-exempt items be included in sales subject to fee at the price charged to the general public for the
same service.
The following are examples of common business gratuity practices and recipients which are nonexempt for the purposes of Forest Service fee calculation.
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(1) Ski and Other Entrance Passes (Daily, Seasonal, and other).
Passes issued to those who do not require lift access to perform their
official business will be accounted for and included in sales at the price
which a member of the general public would be charged. The basis for
this accounting is that the recipient has received a privilege to use the
pass, for which a member of the general public would be charged. Those
who do require lift access for work will have their non-official business ski
days accounted for in gross sales.
NOTE: If an individual is issued a season pass that is used both for work
and other access to the permitted area, the permittee must indicate to the
Forest Supervisor in the gratuity policy statement how the official and
non-offical use is to be calculated.
(2) Gratuitous meals, products and services for employees and company
officials.
Frequently meals, snacks, lodging, purchased and rental equipment, and
lessons are offered at special rates to selected individuals. These
gratuities are to be included at what the general public would be charged.
(3) Group Discounts.
Group discounts are not considered gratuities as long as this same
discount is advertised to the general public and available to all similar
groups without regard to locality. If a group receives a preferential price
not available to other groups meeting the same objective criteria in terms
of age, length of stay and group size, the marginal price difference is a
non-exempt gratuity.
(4) Pricing Structure.
Price variations not allowed to the general public for individuals not
specified in the exempt categories and not related to age, length of stay
and group size will be considered a non-exempt gratuity. The marginal
difference between the price charged and what the general public would
pay must be included in gross sales.
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2715.14 - Concession Fees. Periodic Review of Fees. To balance workloads, the
following Fee Review and Adjustment Schedule is established for Region 2:
Review
Adjmt.
Review
Adjmt.
Review
Adjmt.
Agricultural Uses
1986
1987
1991
1992
1996
1997
Community Uses
1987
1988
1992
1993
1997
1998
Industrial Uses
1987
1988
1992
1993
1997
1998
Public Information
1987
1988
1992
1993
1997
1998
Recreation Uses (Other
than residence)
1990
1991
1995
1996
2000
2001
2008
2010
Recreation Uses
(residence)
Research, Study, &
Experimental Uses
1987
1988
1992
1993
1997
1998
Transportaion Uses
1987
1988
1992
1993
1997
1998
Utilities
1990
1991
1995
1996
2000
2001
Water Uses
1989
1990
1994
1995
1999
2000
Note: The majority of fees for communication uses and linear rights-of-way are
determined by using Regional Fee Schedules. These schedules are trended for time
using CPI-U and key on market conditions to trigger schedule revisions.
Authorizations that specify fee adjustment dates require special handling to meet
their own terms.