S 2335 115th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Agriculture Department of the Interior Forests, forestry, trees Government liability Land use and conservation Licensing and registrations Outdoor recreation Parks, recreation areas, trails Rural conditions and development Small business User charges and fees

GO Act

Introduced: January 24, 2018 Introduced by: Rounds, Mike Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov

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Jan 24, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Guides and Outfitters Act or the GO Act

This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to specify the circumstances under which the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) may: (1) issue special recreation permits for federal recreational lands and waters, and (2) change a special recreation permit fee.

Interior and USDA may issue special recreation permits:

for specialized individual and group use of federal facilities and federal recreational lands and waters;
to recreation service providers who conduct outfitting, guiding, and other recreation services on federal recreational lands and waters; and
to recreation service providers who conduct recreation or competitive events, which may involve incidental sales on federal recreational lands and waters.

USDA and Interior shall implement a program that authorizes temporary permits for new recreational uses of federal recreational lands and waters managed by the Forest Service or the BLM, respectively.

Interior and USDA shall revise certain:

special land use and special recreation permit regulations to streamline the processes for the issuance and renewal of outfitter and guide special use permits, and
cost recovery fee regulations to reduce costs and minimize the burden of cost recovery on small businesses and adverse impacts of cost recovery on jobs in the outfitting and guiding industry and on rural economies.

What's happening now January 24, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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