Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§6872 Interagency Data Standardization
Title 16 › Chapter 87B— MODERNIZING ACCESS TO PUBLIC WATERS › § 6872
Summary
By 30 months after December 26, 2025, the Secretaries must work with the Federal Geographic Data Committee to create shared standards. The standards must make federal databases able to work together and share location-based map data about public outdoor access to Federal waterways and about Federal fishing restrictions.
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Title 16, §6872
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Not later than 30 months after December 26, 2025, the Secretaries, in coordination with the Federal Geographic Data Committee established by section 2802(a) of title 43, shall jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among applicable Federal databases with respect to the collection and dissemination of geospatial data relating to public outdoor recreational access of Federal waterways and Federal fishing restrictions.
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16 U.S.C. § 6872
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60