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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To develop a national strategy to increase the number of 

youth recreation visits to Federal land, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Recreation for All 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. INCREASING YOUTH RECREATION VISITS TO FED7 ERAL LAND. 

8 (a) STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the date 

9 of enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than once 


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1 every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior and 

2 the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this Act as 

3 the ‘‘Secretaries’’) shall develop and make public a na4 tional strategy, after public notice and comment, to in5 crease the number of youth recreation visits to Federal 

6 land. 

7 (b) REQUIREMENTS.—A strategy developed under 

8 subsection (a)— 

9 (1) shall— 

10 (A) emphasize increased recreation oppor11 tunities on Federal land for underserved youth; 

12 (B) establish objectives and quantifiable 

13 targets for increasing youth recreation visits; 

14 and 

15 (C) provide the anticipated costs to achieve 

16 the objectives and meet the targets established 

17 under subparagraph (B); and 

18 (2) shall not establish any preference between 

19 similar recreation facilitated by noncommercial or 

20 commercial entities. 

21 (c) AGREEMENTS.—The Secretaries may enter into 

22 contracts or cost-share agreements (including contracts or 

23 agreements for the acquisition of vehicles) to carry out 

24 this section. 


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1 SEC. 3. MONITORING FOR IMPROVED RECREATION DECI2 SIONMAKING. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries shall seek to cap4 ture comprehensive recreation use data to better under5 stand and inform decisionmaking by the Secretaries. 

6 (b) PILOT PROTOCOLS.—Not later than 1 year after 

7 the date of enactment of this Act, and after public notice 

8 and comment, the Secretaries shall establish pilot proto9 cols at not fewer than 10 land management units under 

10 the jurisdiction of each of the Secretaries to model recre11 ation use patterns (including low-use recreation activities 

12 and dispersed recreation activities) that may not be effec13 tively measured by existing general and opportunistic sur14 vey and monitoring protocols. 

15 SEC. 4. INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF ACCESS CLOSURES. 

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries shall, to the ex17 tent practicable and in a timely fashion, alert the public 

18 to any closure or disruption to public campsites, trails, 

19 roads, and other public areas and access points under the 

20 jurisdiction of the applicable Secretary. 

21 (b) ONLINE ALERT.—An alert under subsection (a) 

22 shall be posted online on a public website of the appro23 priate land unit in a manner that— 

24 (1) ensures that the public can easily find the 

25 alert in searching for the applicable campsite, trail, 

26 road, or other access point; and 


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1 (2) consolidates all alerts under subsection (a). 

2 SEC. 5. RECREATION BUDGET CROSSCUT. 

3 Not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal 

4 year, beginning with fiscal year 2025, the Director of the 

5 Office of Management and Budget shall submit to Con6 gress and make public online a report that describes and 

7 itemizes the total amount of funding relating to outdoor 

8 recreation that was obligated in the preceding fiscal year 

9 in accounts in the Treasury for the Department of the 

10 Interior and the Department of Agriculture. 

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