Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§8545 Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management temporary special recreation permits for outfitting and guiding

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 103— - EXPANDING PUBLIC LANDS OUTDOOR RECREATION EXPERIENCES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - SIMPLIFYING OUTDOOR ACCESS FOR RECREATION › Part Part A— - Modernizing Recreation Permitting › § 8545

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 180 days after January 4, 2025, the Secretary in charge must set up a program that allows short-term permits for new or extra recreational uses on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands and waters. Those short-term recreation permits can last no more than 2 years. If a permit holder operates well for 2 years, the Secretary may change the short-term permit into a long-term recreation permit. This change does not take away or change the Secretary’s existing power to issue other recreation permits under current law.

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Title 16, §8545

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(a)Not later than 180 days after January 4, 2025, the Secretary concerned shall establish and implement a program to authorize the issuance of temporary special recreation permits for new or additional recreational uses of Federal recreational land and water managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

(b)A temporary special recreation permit issued under paragraph (1) 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection (a)”. shall be issued for a period of not more than 2 years.

(c)If the Secretary concerned determines that a permittee under paragraph (1) 1 has completed 2 years of satisfactory operation under the permit proposed to be converted, the Secretary may provide for the conversion of a temporary special recreation permit issued under paragraph (1) 1 to a long-term special recreation permit.

(d)Nothing in this subsection 22 So in original. Probably should be “this section”. alters or affects the authority of the Secretary to issue a special recreation permit under subsection (h)(1) of section 6802 of this title (as amended by this title).

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As amended by this title, referred to in subsec. (d), means as amended by title III of Pub. L. 118–234.

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16 U.S.C. § 8545

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73