FOREST SERVICE MANUAL

Pueblo, CO

TITLE 6500 - FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

PSI/CC Supplement No. 6500-98-1

Effective January 1, 1998

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 Title was Supplement 6500-97-1 dated September 1, 1997 to 6570.

Superseded New

Document Name (Number of Pages)

6520 2 2

Digest:

Removes PSI/CC Supplement 6500-92-1 as obsolete.

Updates indirect expense rates.

RICK D. CABLES

Forest Supervisor

6522 - BUDGET PROCEDURES

6522.51a - Budgeting for Expenses for Cooperative Work KV, Cooperative Work Other and Permanent Appropriations. These instructions include Timber Salvage Sales and Brush Disposal.

3. Assessment Rates for Indirect Expenses.

c. The following indirect expenses rates will be used in FY 1998. Indirect expense assessment rates include Brush Disposal, CWFS-KV, CWKV-Other and Salvage Sale Funds.

Include Washington and Regional Office rates to assessment applied to

Forest planned direct project obligations. This includes timber sale

appraisals, SAI plans, fuel treatment plans, and cooperative agreements to d etermine total collection amounts.

The rates become effective immediately. The effective date is not

mandatory for timber sale appraisals and cooperative agreements that

are in the final stages of preparation.

Appropriation WO/RO SO Total

CWFS-KV 7.75% 12.50% 20.25%

CWFS, Other 0% 16.00% 16.00%

Timber Salvage Sales 14.16% 13.50% 27.66%

Brush Disposal 16.14% 12.00% 28.14%