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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5273
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and collect recreation
use fees on a temporary basis in connection with the recreational use
of the Superior National Forest in the State of Minnesota.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 7, 1994
Mr. OBERSTAR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and
collect recreation use fees on a temporary basis in con-
nection with the recreational use of the Superior Na-
tional Forest in the State of Minnesota.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Superior National
Forest Fund Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(2) the pass holder and the spouse, children,
and parents of the pass holder accompanying the
pass holder where entry to a recreation site is by
any means other than a private, noncommercial
vehicle.
(d) GOLDEN AGE PASSPORT AND GOLDEN ACCESS
PASSPORT.—Any person holding a valid Golden Age Pass-
port or Golden Access Passport issued under paragraph
(4) or (5) of section 4(a) of the Land and Water Conserva-
tion Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(a)) shall be
entitled upon presentation of such passport to purchase
of a recreation use pass for the Superior National Forest
at a rate equal to 50 percent of the purchase price other-
wise applicable to the recreation use pass.
(e) RULES AND REGULATIONS, ENFORCEMENT POW-
ERS.—Recreation use passes sold under this section shall
be nontransferable. The unlawful use of a recreation use
pass shall be punishable in accordance with regulations es-
tablished under section 4(e) of the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(e)).
SEC. 6. TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.
(a) TERMINATION.—The authority of the Secretary
to establish or collect fees under section 4 or sell recre-
ation use passes under section 5 shall expire at the end
of the seven-year period beginning on the date of the en-
actment of this Act. Termination of such authority shall
not affect the validity of any annual recreation use pass
sold under section 5 before that date.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than six years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit
to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of
the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources and
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives a report evaluating the authority provided by sections
4 and 5 regarding recreation use fees and recreation use
passes. The report shall include any recommendations of
the Secretary for modifying the authority, for extending
the authority beyond the date specified in subsection (a),
or for extending the authority to other units of the Na-
tional Forest System.
SEC. 7. DISPOSITION OF RECREATION USE FEES AND
FUNDS FROM SALES OF RECREATION USE
PASSES.
(a) DEPOSIT
OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding para-
graphs (1), (2), or (3) of section 4(i) of the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–
6a(i)), recreation use fees collected under section 4 and
amounts received from sales of recreation use passes
under section 5 shall be deposited in a special account in
the Treasury.
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—
(1) OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND
OTHER
USES.—In such amounts as are provided in advance
in appropriation Acts, the Secretary may use
amounts in the special account to provide supple-
mental funds for operation, maintenance, and man-
agement of recreation sites within the Superior Na-
tional Forest, for interpretation and management of
resources in the Superior National Forest, and for
administrative costs associated with such activities.
(2) PAYMENTS TO STATES AND COUNTIES.—
Recreation use fees collected under section 4 and
amounts received for recreation use passes sold
under section 5 shall be considered as money re-
ceived for purpose of computing and distributing
payments to States and counties pursuant to section
13 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 500).
(c) ROADS AND TRAILS.—Recreation use fees col-
lected under section 4 and amounts received for recreation
use passes sold under section 5 shall not be considered
as money received for purpose of the fourteenth paragraph
under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of the Act of March
4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501).
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