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16 U.S.C. § 6812 — Repeal of superseded admission and use fee authorities

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16 U.S.C. § 6812 — Repeal of superseded admission and use fee authorities

**(a) Land and Water Conservation Fund Act** Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (i) (except for paragraph (1)(C)) of section 4 11 See References in Text note below. of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 are repealed, except that the Secretary may continue to issue Golden Eagle Passports, Golden Age Passports, and Golden Access Passports under such section until the date the notice required by [section 6804(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) is published in the Federal Register regarding the establishment of the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass. **(b) Recreational fee demonstration program** Section 315 1 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) of Public Law 104–134), is repealed. **(c) Admission permits for refuge units** [Section 3911 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3911&num=0&edition=prelim) is repealed. **(d) National park passport, Golden Eagle Passport, Golden Age Passport, and Golden Access Passport** Effective on the date the notice required by [section 6804(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) is published in the Federal Register, the following provisions of law authorizing the establishment of a national park passport program or the establishment and sale of a national park passport, Golden Eagle Passport, Golden Age Passport, or Golden Access Passport are repealed: (1) Section 502 1 of the National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–391). (2) Title VI 1 of the National Parks Omnibu

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**(a) Land and Water Conservation Fund Act** Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (i) (except for paragraph (1)(C)) of section 4 11 See References in Text note below. of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 are repealed, except that the Secretary may continue to issue Golden Eagle Passports, Golden Age Passports, and Golden Access Passports under such section until the date the notice required by [section 6804(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) is published in the Federal Register regarding the establishment of the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass. **(b) Recreational fee demonstration program** Section 315 1 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) of Public Law 104–134), is repealed. **(c) Admission permits for refuge units** [Section 3911 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3911&num=0&edition=prelim) is repealed. **(d) National park passport, Golden Eagle Passport, Golden Age Passport, and Golden Access Passport** Effective on the date the notice required by [section 6804(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) is published in the Federal Register, the following provisions of law authorizing the establishment of a national park passport program or the establishment and sale of a national park passport, Golden Eagle Passport, Golden Age Passport, or Golden Access Passport are repealed: (1) Section 502 1 of the National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–391). (2) Title VI 1 of the National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–391). **(e) Treatment of unobligated funds** (1) **Land and water conservation fund special accounts** — Amounts in the special accounts established under section 4(i)(1) 1 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 for Federal land management agencies that are unobligated on December 8, 2004, shall be transferred to the appropriate special account established under [section 6806 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6806&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall be available to the Secretary in accordance with this chapter. A special account established under section 4(i)(1) 1 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 for a Federal agency that is not a Federal land management area, and the use of such special account, is not affected by the repeal of section 4 1 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 by subsection (a) of this section. (2) **National parks passport** — Any funds collected under title VI 1 of the National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–391) that are unobligated on the day before the publication of the Federal Register notice required under [section 6804(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be transferred to the special account of the National Park Service for use in accordance with this chapter. The Secretary of the Interior may use amounts available in that special account to pay any outstanding administration, marketing, or close-out costs associated with the national parks passport. (3) **Recreational fee demonstration program** — Any funds collected in accordance with section 315 1 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) of Public Law 104–134), that are unobligated on the day before December 8, 2004, shall be transferred to the appropriate special account and shall be available to the Secretary in accordance with this chapter. (4) **Admission permits for refuge units** — Any funds collected in accordance with [section 3911 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3911&num=0&edition=prelim) that are available as provided in subsection (c)(A) of such section and are unobligated on the day before December 8, 2004, shall be transferred to the special account of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for use in accordance with this chapter. **(f) Effect of regulations** A regulation or policy issued under a provision of law repealed by this section shall remain in effect to the extent such a regulation or policy is consistent with the provisions of this chapter until the Secretary issues a regulation, guideline, or policy under this chapter that supersedes the earlier regulation.

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16 U.S.C. § 6806 — Special account and distribution of fees and revenues

**(a) Special account** The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish a special account in the Treasury for each Federal land management agency. **(b) Deposits** Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e), revenues collected by each Federal land management agency under this chapter shall— (1) be deposited in its special account; and (2) remain available for expenditure, without further appropriation, until expended. **(c) Distribution of recreation fees and single-site agency pass revenues** (1) **Local distribution of funds** (A) *Retention of revenues* — Not less than 80 percent of the recreation fees and site-specific agency pass revenues collected at a specific unit or area of a Federal land management agency shall remain available for expenditure, without further appropriation, until expended at that unit or area. (B) *Reduction* — The Secretary may reduce the percentage allocation otherwise applicable under subparagraph (A) to a unit or area of a Federal land management agency, but not below 60 percent, for a fiscal year if the Secretary determines that the revenues collected at the unit or area exceed the reasonable needs of the unit or area for which expenditures may be made for that fiscal year. (2) **Agency-wide distribution of funds** — The balance of the recreation fees and site-specific agency pass revenues collected at a specific unit or area of a Federal land management and not distributed in accordance with paragraph (1) shall remain available to that Federal land management agency for expenditure on an agency-wide basis, without further appropriation, until expended. (3) **Other amounts** — Other amounts collected at other locations, including recreation fees collected by other entities or for a reservation service, shall remain available, wi

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16 U.S.C. § 5982 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–287, § 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272

### Statutory Notes Section, Pub. L. 105–391, title V, § 501, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3518; Pub. L. 109–131, title I, § 102(b), Dec. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 2568, related to fees. See [section 101531 of Title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section101531&num=0&edition=prelim), National Park Service and Related Programs.

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16 U.S.C. § 460 — Natchez Trace Parkway

All lands and easements heretofore and hereafter conveyed to the United States by the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee for the right-of-way for the projected parkway between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, together with sites acquired or to be acquired for recreational areas in connection therewith, and a right-of-way for said parkway of a width sufficient to include the highway and all bridges, ditches, cuts, and fills appurtenant thereto, but not exceeding a maximum of two hundred feet through Government-owned lands (except that where small parcels of Government-owned lands would otherwise be isolated, or where topographic conditions or scenic requirements are such that bridges, ditches, cuts, fills, parking overlooks, and landscape development could not reasonably be confined to a width of two hundred feet, the said maximum may be increased to such width as may be necessary, with the written approval of the department or agency having jurisdiction over such lands) as designated on maps heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be known as the Natchez Trace Parkway and shall be administered and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”,11 See References in Text note below. the provisions of which Act, as amended and supplemented, are extended over and made applicable to said parkway: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to connect with said parkway such roads and trails as may be necessary for the protection, administration, or uti

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16 U.S.C. § 6801 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) **Entrance fee** — The term “entrance fee” means the recreation fee authorized to be charged to enter onto lands managed by the National Park Service or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. (2) **Expanded amenity recreation fee** — The term “expanded amenity recreation fee” means the recreation fee authorized by [section 6802(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6802/g&num=0&edition=prelim). (3) **Federal land management agency** — The term “Federal land management agency” means the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the Forest Service. (4) **Federal recreational lands and waters** — The term “Federal recreational lands and waters” means lands or waters managed by a Federal land management agency. (5) **National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass** — The term “National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass” means the interagency national pass authorized by [section 6804 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804&num=0&edition=prelim). (6) **Passholder** — The term “passholder” means the person who is issued a recreation pass. (7) **Recreation fee** — The term “recreation fee” means an entrance fee, standard amenity recreation fee, expanded amenity recreation fee, or special recreation permit fee. (8) **Recreation pass** — The term “recreation pass” means the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass or one of the other recreation passes available as authorized by [section 6804 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6804&num=0&edition=prelim). (9) **Recreation se

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54 U.S.C. § 100904 — Admission and special recreation use fees

**(a) System Units at Which Entrance Fees or Admissions Fees Cannot Be Collected.—** (1) **Withholding of amounts.—** — Notwithstanding section 107 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105–83, 111 Stat. 1561), the Secretary shall withhold from the special account under section 807(a) of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act ([16 U.S.C. 6806(a)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6806/a&num=0&edition=prelim)) 100 percent of the fees and charges collected in connection with any System unit at which entrance fees or admission fees cannot be collected by reason of deed restrictions. (2) **Use of amounts.—** — Amounts withheld under paragraph (1) shall be retained by the Secretary and shall be available, without further appropriation, for expenditure by the Secretary for the System unit with respect to which the amounts were collected for the purposes of enhancing the quality of the visitor experience, protection of resources, repair and maintenance, interpretation, signage, habitat or facility enhancement, resource preservation, annual operation (including fee collection), maintenance, and law enforcement. **(b) Allocation of Funds to System Units.—** (1) **Allocation of funds on basis of need.—** — Ten percent of the funds made available to the Director under subsection (a) in each fiscal year shall be allocated among System units on the basis of need in a manner to be determined by the Director. (2) **Allocation of funds based on expenses and based on fees collected.—** (A) *In general.—* — Forty percent of the funds made available to the Director under subsection (a) in each fiscal year shall be allocated among System units in accordance with subparagraph (B) of

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16 U.S.C. § 3911 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–447, div. J, title VIII, § 813(c), Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3390

### Statutory Notes Section, Pub. L. 99–645, title II, § 201, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3584, related to the sale of admission permits at certain units of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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16 U.S.C. § 6812 — Repeal of superseded admission and use

Page 2657 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 6812 1 See References in Text note below. shall be applied by substituting ‘October 1, 2025’ for ‘September 30, 2019’.’’ Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 117–328, div. G, title IV, § 421, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 4826. Pub. L. 117–103, div. G, title IV, § 421, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 415. Pub. L. 116–260, div. G, title IV, § 423, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 1541. Pub. L. 116–94, div. D, title IV, § 425, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2748. Pub. L. 116–6, div. E, title IV, § 427, Feb. 15, 2019, 133 Stat. 264. § 6810. Volunteers (a) Authority to use volunteers The Secretary may use volunteers, as appro- priate, to collect recreation fees and sell recre- ation passes. (b) Waiver or discount of fees; site-specific agen- cy pass In exchange for volunteer services, the Sec- retary may waive or discount an entrance fee, standard amenity recreation fee, or an expanded amenity recreation fee that would otherwise apply to the volunteer or issue to the volunteer a site-specific agency pass authorized under sec- tion 6804(c) of this title. (c) National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass In accordance with the guidelines issued under section 6804(a)(7) of this title, the Secretaries may issue a National Parks and Federal Rec- reational Lands Pass to a volunteer in exchange for significant volunteer services performed by the volunteer. (d) Regional multientity passes The Secretary may issue a regional multi- entity pass authorized under section 6804(d) of this title to a volunteer in exchange for signifi- cant volunteer services performed by the volun- teer, if the regional multientity pass agreement under which the regional multientity pass was established provides

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