5.0.Roles, Responsibilities, and Funding

Roles and Responsibilities

5.0.1. Park managers will be responsible for identifying planning needs, prioritizing planning work as part of unified priority setting for the park as a whole, and securing funding. The superintendent and regional director will be accountable for the satisfactory accomplishment of planning projects and for ensuring that they are consistent with all legal mandates, NPS policy, and servicewide direction. Program managers in the Headquarters Office will be responsible for formulating and advising on NPS policy and for managing servicewide program funds to support the planning and information needs of parks in ways that provide the most benefit for the national park system as a whole. The National Leadership Council will approve priorities for servicewide program funds. The national program centers and regional support offices will be responsible for completing assigned projects and for providing technical support and consulting services.

Roles and Responsibilities Program Standards

Funding

5.0.2. Park planning activities will be funded through a variety of sources. The key sources for each kind of planning are identified below:

• General management planning and analysis will be funded primarily through GMP project funds.
• Park strategic planning and annual performance planning and reporting will be funded out of the park’s operating base.
• Implementation planning will be funded primarily through sources available for the specific project areas addressed by the plan, such as construction project planning funds, natural resource project funds, cultural resource project funds, and commercial service project funds, or, if special project funds are not available, through park and regional base funds.

Funding Program Standards

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