H.R. 316 — GO Act

Summary

Guides and Outfitters Act or the GO Act

This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to specify the circumstances under which the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) may (1) issue special recreation permits for federal recreational lands and waters, and (2) change a special recreation permit fee.

Interior and USDA may issue special recreation permits

for specialized individual and group use of federal facilities and federal recreational lands and waters;
to recreation service providers who conduct outfitting, guiding, and other recreation services on federal recreational lands and waters; and
to recreation service providers who conduct recreation or competitive events, which may involve incidental sales on federal recreational lands and waters.

USDA and Interior shall implement a program that authorizes temporary permits for new recreational uses of federal recreational lands and waters managed by the Forest Service or the BLM, respectively.

Interior and USDA shall revise certain

special land use and special recreation permit regulations to streamline the processes for the issuance and renewal of outfitter and guide special use permits, and
cost recovery fee regulations to reduce costs and minimize the burden of cost recovery on small businesses and adverse impacts of cost recovery on jobs in the outfitting and guiding industry and on rural economies.

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2019-01-08
Introduced in House
2019-01-08
Introduced in House
2019-01-08
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-01-08
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-02-05
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
2019-02-05
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2019-02-07
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

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