Download or read book Federal Recreation Fee Program written by United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Recreation Fee Program Including Federal Recreation Visitation Data written by United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation Fees Agencies Can Better Implement the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act Account for Fee Revenues written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Recreation Fees written by United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation Fees written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation Fees written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA in P.L. 108-447) established a new recreation fee program for five federal agencies -- the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), National Park Service (NPS), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Forest Service (FS) in the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The law authorizes these agencies to charge fees at recreation sites through December 8, 2014. It provides for different kinds of fees, criteria for charging fees, public participation in determining fees, and the establishment of a national recreation pass. The agencies can use the collections without further appropriation. Most of the money is for improvements at the collecting site, such as operation, maintenance, and capital improvement projects. This program supersedes, and seeks to improve upon, the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. Recreation fees have been controversial for decades, and there continues to be a difference of opinion as to the need for recreation fees and how fee programs should operate. The agencies are in transition to the new recreation fee program. The Recreation Fee Leadership Council, comprised of senior DOI and USDA policy officials, is overseeing agency implementation of the new fee program through an implementation plan with short-, medium-, and long-term goals. Some of these have been accomplished, while others are ongoing. The Fee Council also established working groups on key provisions of the new law, related to fee collections and expenditures, communications, Recreation Resource Advisory Committees (Recreation RACs) and public participation, and passes. The BLM and FS have decided to collaborate in the use of RACs, which will make recommendations on fee sites and fees. Some of the existing RACs have begun meeting to consider fee issues. With regard to passes, a new national recreation pass became available in January 2007. The agencies have issued policy guidance on implementing REA, including through an Implementation Handbook (June 2006) with interagency guidance on aspects of REA. Further, the agencies have conducted analyses of the extent to which sites charging fees under the former Fee Demo Program meet the criteria and prohibitions of the REA for charging entry, standard amenity, and expanded amenity fees. The NPS and FWS made little change in fees and fee sites as a result of the new law. The BLM made some adjustments, while the FS made the most changes, dropping fees at 437 sites. Reclamation has decided to implement the fee program in one or a few areas. Congress is overseeing agency implementation efforts. Hearings in the 109th Congress focused on the development of the new national recreation pass as well as on implementation generally. In May 2006, the agencies submitted to Congress the First Triennial Report on the recreation fee program. The Government Accountability Office released a report in September 2006 on program implementation, with recommendations for program improvement.
Download or read book Recreation Fees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress authorized the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program to help federal land management agencies provide high-quality recreational opportunities to visitors and protect resources. The program focuses on recreational activities at the following four land management agencies: the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest Service. Under the fee demonstration program, participating agencies can collect fees at several sites and use them to (1) enhance visitor services, (2) address a backlog of needs for repair and maintenance, and (3) manage and protect resources. The agencies applied "entrance fees" for basic admission to an area and "user fees" for specific activities such as camping or launching a boat. Under the law, 80 percent of program revenue must be used at the site where it was collected. The rest may be distributed to other sites that may or may not be participating in the demonstration program. Some of the sites GAO surveyed experimented with innovative fee designs and collection methods, such as reducing fees during off-peak seasons and allowing visitors to use credit cards, but room for additional innovation exists, particularly in the areas of fee collection and coordination. The agencies also need to make improvement in three program management areas: evaluating their managers' performance in administering the fee program, developing information on which fee-collection and coordination practices work best, and resolving interagency management issues.
Download or read book Federal Recreation Fee Program written by United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Forest Service Implementation of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act written by Lauren Newton and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA) enables the United States Forest Service (USFS), along with other public land management agencies, to charge user fees at recreation sites to support user-generated cost recovery for federal recreation programs. The USFS implements policies as a decentralized agency using both formal procedures and informal agency norms, along with staff discretion in decision making. Previous research suggests that recreation fees could have disproportionate impacts on low-income users and potentially displace visitors, which presents equity concerns with recreation fee implementation. Using interview and pre-existing program monitoring data and reports, this study examined the USFS's implementation of the recreation fee program under the REA at four national forests to (1) understand how staff implement the recreation fee program, and (2) explore staff perspectives on the impacts of recreation fee program implementation. This study found that during implementation of the recreation fee program, USFS staff (1) prioritize similar policy objectives to those in the USFS Recreation Fee Manual, but lack capacity to achieve objectives in full, (2) use formal and informal mechanisms during implementation, however experiences with these mechanisms vary, and (3) must make tradeoffs with limited funding and information, which are exacerbated with rising visitation. Staff perspectives on impacts of the recreation fee program include: (1) impacts to the organization itself which includes staff, site, and financial impacts, (2) visitor experiences are negatively impacted by a negative perception of recreation fees due to ineffective communication, (3) low public engagement in the fee program may be dependent on local demographics, and (4) displacement can occur but is not necessarily a negative impact. USFS implementation of the REA does not distort policy. Rather staff lack the financial resources to achieve the policy objectives in full and the outcomes of implementation exacerbate inequities in outdoor recreation. Increasing appropriated dollars with equitable allocation and improving communication and efforts to include underrepresented groups in USFS recreation processes can reduce inequitable outcomes of REA implementation.
Download or read book Federal Recreation Fee Report written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation Fees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation fees management improvements can help the Demonstration Program enhance visitor services written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recreation Fees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Lands Recreatiom Enhancement Act written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 3283 a Bill to Improve Recreational Facilities and Visitor Opportunities on Federal Recreational Lands by Reinvesting Receipts from Fair and Consistent Recreational Fees and Passes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
