Visitors can pay an access fee and drive through the park on a dirt road (a 2-3 hour trip).

Others may visit the Collection on payment of an access fee.

But there is an economic element to this controversy: the question of access fees.

The reduction amounts to a cut of about 25 percent in access fees paid to the local companies.

He proposed a new, $12 million tax on the access fees paid by long-distance telephone companies to use local lines.

The item, known as "access fees," makes up nearly half the cost of a long-distance call.

Now people face a second charge - an access fee from the bank whose machine they are using.

The beach is open to the public, but an access fee must be paid.

He said revenue from the special access fees totaled $20,000 a year.

Customers began paying the access fee, at the rate of $1 a month, in June 1985.