Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§460d–2 Adjustment by Secretary of Agriculture
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LXVI— - PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AT WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS › § 460d–2
Summary
The Secretary of Agriculture can change leases on Forest Service lands for commercial recreation at Federal reservoir projects. They may raise or lower rent or other payments during the lease if they decide it’s in the public interest, but changes cannot apply to times before the change takes effect.
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Title 16, §460d–2
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to amend any lease entered into with respect to lands under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service providing for the construction, maintenance, and operation of commercial recreational facilities at a Federal reservoir project so as to provide for the adjustment, either by increase or decrease, from time to time during the term of such lease of the amount of rental or other consideration payable to the United States under such lease, when and to the extent he determines such adjustment to be necessary or advisable in the public interest. No adjustment shall be made under the authority of this section so as to increase or decrease the amount of rental or other consideration payable under such lease for any period prior to the date of such adjustment.
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16 U.S.C. § 460d–2
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73