PLAN TO CUT PARKING IS UNDER STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000600100030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 1, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

Plan -to Cut.`
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Under Study
By Eugene L . Meyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
CPYRGHT Officials of the White House;
Office of Management and
Budget are dusting off a pro-
posal, first circulated. last,
April, to do away with free
and low-cost parking for fed
eral employees.
The plan is designed to cut
down on commuting and to l
save money spent, or proposed
to be spent, on leasing spaces.
"Most of the administative
officers of the major depart-
ments oppose it. They're wor-
ried about keeping their em-
ployees," said a Transporta-
tion Department official. "The
policy and planning people
think it's a good idea."
But the official added,
"OMB is keen on this pro-
posal. It seems to me that it
will be promulgated."
In this area, there are 102,-,,
600 federal employees using
64,100 free and cut-rate park-
ing spaces. Employees would Jl
pay from $20 to $45 a nionthi
under the commercial rates
that OMB wants. A Depart-
ment of Transportation study
a year ago estimated that $10
million could be raised by the
government if the parking
subsidies were dropped here.
The OMB proposal would
apply at federal installations
across the country, wherever
the government decided that
mass transportation was an al-
ternative available to employ-
ees.
Jim Curry, the OMB official
responsible for the proposal,
said the delay in implement-
ing the plan is due to a change
of leadership at OMB. Roy L.
Ash, the new head of OMB,
and his deputy, Fred Malek,
? will soon be briefed, Curry
said.
The proposal stems from the
decision in 1970 by the Trans-
ortation Department to lease
parking space in the private
assif building, 7th and D
streets SW, setting a pre~ed-
nt. Previously, it had been
idely held agencies
ould not lease parking in!
uildings they did not owii.
Employees in other agencies
egan demanding the same
reatment, Curry said, causing
MB to order a mor? o iu
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