16 U.S.C. § 8549
Cost recovery reform
United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective
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- 16 U.S.C. § 8549, Cost recovery reform, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/448448
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In addition to a fee collected under section 6802 of this title or any other authorized fee collected by the Secretary concerned, the Secretary concerned may assess and collect a reasonable fee from an applicant for, or holder of, a special recreation permit to recover administrative costs incurred by the Secretary concerned for—
If the administrative costs described in subsection (a) are assessed on an hourly basis, the Secretary concerned shall—
If the Secretary concerned collectively processes multiple applications for special recreation permits for the same or similar services in the same unit of Federal recreational lands and waters, the Secretary concerned shall, to the extent practicable—
The Secretary concerned shall not assess or collect administrative costs under this section for a programmatic environmental review.
To the maximum extent practicable, the agency processing an application for a special recreation permit shall use existing studies and analysis to reduce the quantity of work and costs necessary to process the application.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
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