HR 316
116th Congress
House
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 8, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 7, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Feb 5, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Feb 5, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Jan 8, 2019
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.