HR 289 · 115th Congress · Public Lands and Natural Resources

GO Act

Introduced 2017-01-04· Sponsored by Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.(2017-10-03)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Guides and Outfitters Act or the GO Act This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to specify the circumstances in 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) charge a special recreation permit fee for them. 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. Interior and USDA shall issue joint permits for the use of lands managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Interior shall publish guidelines for establishing recreation permit fees. Revenues from special recreation permits issued to recreation service providers shall be used to: (1) offset partially Interior's direct cost of administering permits, and (2) i…

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CBO Cost Estimate

Congressional Budget Office

H.R. 289, GO Act

Sep 18, 2017

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 27, 2017

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Cosponsors (10)

1 Democrat9 Republicans