Letter from Carl Hayden to W. W. Bass concerning the passing of the national park bill. Hayden states that he will try to make the bill as advantageous to Arizona miners and farmers as possible, but the land will either remain as a national monument or become a national park. A postscript is added concerning the land allocated for the Havasupai Tribe.

The Arizona Department of Administration administers a purchasing cooperative program that allows members to purchase goods and services from state-wide contracts. Statute authorizes the Department to establish a program fee that covers the costs of administering the purchasing cooperative program. However, the program’s fee revenue has exceeded the program’s administrative costs. Not only has the Department used program fee revenue to administer the purchasing cooperative program, it has also used this revenue to pay for most of the cost of the state electronic procurement system, ProcureAZ, and to pay the salaries and benefits of more than half of the Department’s procurement staff. Therefore, the Department needs to better align the program fee with program costs. In addition, the Department needs to improve the collection of program fee revenue and continue to strengthen its cash-handling controls over the processing of program fee revenue.

To facilitate development of the Environmental Impact Statement which must accompany the Section 10 multi-species conservation proposal, a series of issue papers were prepared. In Pima County, ranching is uniquely able to preserve the integrity of vast tracts of connected and unfragmented open space and wildlife habitat. This study reviews the effect of five alternative permit strategies on the County's ability to preserve unfragmented landscapes through conserving ranch lands.