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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§539f Nonprofit Organization User of National Forest Lands

Title 16 › Chapter 2— NATIONAL FORESTS › Subchapter I— ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION › § 539f

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must each year waive, without charge, all or part of permit or rental fees for certain National Forest lands used as organization camps by local Boy Scouts units or other nonprofit groups. The waiver is allowed when those local groups agree to do services the Secretary sets that the Secretary finds will help the public and the forest program. If a group does not fully do the required services, it cannot get the waiver the next year. Other nonprofit organization: (1) a nonprofit with an exemption under section 501(c) of title 26; (2) a nonprofit association or corporation not owned or controlled by for‑profit businesses and that works to further public health, safety, or welfare.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §539f

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(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture is directed to waive annually without charge all or a portion of payment or rental fees required under terms of a permit for use of certain lands of the National Forest System as organization camps by local units of the Boy Scouts of America or such other nonprofit organization when such local units of the Boy Scouts of America or such nonprofit organization are willing to perform services, as the Secretary prescribes and determines will yield a valuable benefit to the public and to the program of the Secretary of such lands. If the Secretary determines that a local unit of the Boy Scouts of America or such other nonprofit organization has not fully performed such services, such organization shall not be entitled in the subsequent year to waiver under the provisions of this section.
(b)The term “other nonprofit organization” shall mean (1) a nonprofit organization holding an exemption under section 501(c) of title 26; and (2) a nonprofit association or nonprofit corporation, which is not controlled or owned by profitmaking corporations or business enterprises, and which is engaged in public or semipublic activity to further public health, safety, or welfare.

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1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–514 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text.

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16 U.S.C. § 539f

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60