Recreation for All Act

Recreation for All Act

This bill addresses ways to increase recreation and youth visits to federal land.

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to develop and make public a national strategy to increase the number of youth recreation visits to federal land. Such strategy shall meet specified requirements, including to emphasize increased recreational opportunities on federal land for underserved youth.

Further, the departments must

• establish pilot protocols at not fewer than 10 land management units to model recreation use patterns that may not be effectively measured by existing general and opportunistic survey and monitoring protocols; and
• alert the public to any closure or disruption to public campsites, trails, roads, and other public areas and access points in a timely manner, through an online alert system.

The Office of Management and Budget must make public online a report that describes and itemizes the total amount of funding relating to outdoor recreation that was obligated in the preceding fiscal year in Treasury accounts for the departments.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1385 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1385

    To develop a national strategy to increase the number of youth 
       recreation visits to Federal land, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 27, 2023

 Ms. Cantwell (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To develop a national strategy to increase the number of youth 
       recreation visits to Federal land, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Recreation for All Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASING YOUTH RECREATION VISITS TO FEDERAL LAND.

    (a) Strategy.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and not less frequently than once every 5 years thereafter, 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
(referred to in this Act as the ``Secretaries'') shall develop and make 
public a national strategy, after public notice and comment, to 
increase the number of youth recreation visits to Federal land.
    (b) Requirements.--A strategy developed under subsection (a)--
            (1) shall--
                    (A) emphasize increased recreation opportunities on 
                Federal land for underserved youth;
                    (B) establish objectives and quantifiable targets 
                for increasing youth recreation visits; and
                    (C) provide the anticipated costs to achieve the 
                objectives and meet the targets established under 
                subparagraph (B); and
            (2) shall not establish any preference between similar 
        recreation facilitated by noncommercial or commercial entities.
    (c) Agreements.--The Secretaries may enter into contracts or cost-
share agreements (including contracts or agreements for the acquisition 
of vehicles) to carry out this section.

SEC. 3. MONITORING FOR IMPROVED RECREATION DECISIONMAKING.

    (a) In General.--The Secretaries shall seek to capture 
comprehensive recreation use data to better understand and inform 
decisionmaking by the Secretaries.
    (b) Pilot Protocols.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and after public notice and comment, the 
Secretaries shall establish pilot protocols at not fewer than 10 land 
management units under the jurisdiction of each of the Secretaries to 
model recreation use patterns (including low-use recreation activities 
and dispersed recreation activities) that may not be effectively 
measured by existing general and opportunistic survey and monitoring 
protocols.

SEC. 4. INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF ACCESS CLOSURES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretaries shall, to the extent practicable 
and in a timely fashion, alert the public to any closure or disruption 
to public campsites, trails, roads, and other public areas and access 
points under the jurisdiction of the applicable Secretary.
    (b) Online Alert.--An alert under subsection (a) shall be posted 
online on a public website of the appropriate land unit in a manner 
that--
            (1) ensures that the public can easily find the alert in 
        searching for the applicable campsite, trail, road, or other 
        access point; and
            (2) consolidates all alerts under subsection (a).

SEC. 5. RECREATION BUDGET CROSSCUT.

     Not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal year, 
beginning with fiscal year 2025, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall submit to Congress and make public online a 
report that describes and itemizes the total amount of funding relating 
to outdoor recreation that was obligated in the preceding fiscal year 
in accounts in the Treasury for the Department of the Interior and the 
Department of Agriculture.
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