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HR 3223 112th Congress House Water Resources Development Lakes and rivers Outdoor recreation Parks, recreation areas, trails Sports and recreation facilities User charges and fees Water resources funding Water storage

To direct the Army Corps of Engineers to allow certain entities to use a portion of collected recreational user fees for administrative expenses and for the operations, maintenance, development of recreational facilities or management of natural resources.

Introduced: October 14, 2011 Introduced by: Foxx, Virginia Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Oct 17, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Oct 14, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Oct 14, 2011
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (WRDA) to authorize the Secretary of the Army to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with non-federal public and private entities to provide for the maintenance, development, or construction of recreation facilities at water resource development projects under the Secretary's jurisdiction; and (2) permit any such entity to collect fees for the use of recreation sites and facilities, to retain up to 50% of the fees collected to pay the entity's administrative costs, and to reinvest the balance of the fees for the operation, maintenance, development, or construction of recreation facilities or the management of natural resources on any project lands at the lake or reservoir where such fees were collected.

Authorizes a local interest or nonprofit entity that has been granted a lease of lands at a public recreation area located at a lake or reservoir under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers, and that has entered into an agreement with the Corps to collect and reinvest 50% of the fees for operation, maintenance, development, or construction of recreation facilities and management of natural resources at on such lands, to retain up to 50% of the fees to pay administrative costs.

What's happening now October 17, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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