Title: To amend section 805 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a lifetime pass for access to Federal recreational lands and waters, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish and charge a fee for a nontransferable Recreational Access for Life Pass, which shall be used to cover the entrance fee and standard amenity recreation fee for all federal recreation lands and waters for which a fee is charged.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7175 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7175

To amend section 805 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to 
 provide for a lifetime pass for access to Federal recreational lands 
                  and waters, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 27, 2018

  Mr. Graves of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. Polis) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
   Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 805 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to 
 provide for a lifetime pass for access to Federal recreational lands 
                  and waters, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. LIFETIME ACCESS TO RECREATIONAL LANDS AND WATERS.

    Section 805 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (15 
U.S.C. 6804) is amended by adding at the end of the following:
    ``(g) Lifetime Access to Recreational Lands and Waters.--
            ``(1) Availability and use.--The Secretary shall establish, 
        and may charge a fee for, a lifetime interagency national pass 
        to be known as the `Recreational Access for Life Pass', which 
        shall cover the entrance fee and standard amenity recreation 
        fee for all Federal recreation lands and waters for which an 
        entrance fee or standard amenity recreation fee is charged.
            ``(2) Nontransferable.--The lifetime pass shall not be 
        transferable.
    ``(h) Maintenance of Effort.--
            ``(1) In general.--
                    ``(A) Intent.--It is the intent of the Congress 
                that the Secretary shall not use amounts made available 
                under subsection (g)(3) as an opportunity to reduce 
                resources for priority deferred maintenance projects 
                (including other infrastructure deficiencies directly 
                related to such deferred maintenance projects).
                    ``(B) Required maintenance of effort.--Except as 
                provided in paragraph (2), no priority deferred 
                maintenance project (including other infrastructure 
                deficiencies directly related to a priority deferred 
                maintenance project) shall receive funds made available 
                under subsection (g)(3) during any fiscal year when the 
                expenditures for priority deferred maintenance projects 
                with amounts from other sources will be less than 
                during the preceding fiscal year.
            ``(2) Exception.--The Secretary may provide funds made 
        available under subsection (g)(3) to a deferred maintenance 
        project not meeting the requirements of paragraph (1) if the 
        Secretary determines that a reduction in expenditures is 
        attributable to a nonselective reduction in expenditures for 
        the programs of all executive branch agencies of the National 
        Park Service.
            ``(3) Use of fund to meet matching requirements.--All funds 
        received by the Secretary under subsection (g)(3) shall be 
        treated as Federal funds for purposes of compliance with any 
        provision in effect under any other law requiring that non-
        Federal funds be used to provide a portion of the funding for 
        any program or project.''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON REVENUE.

    Not later than January 31 of each year, the Secretary shall submit 
to Congress a report on reasonable fees for recreation activities 
offered by the National Park Service to determine--
            (1) the aggregate change of funds;
            (2) the impact on the National Park Service or Federal 
        lands due to fee change decisions;
            (3) the difference between the amount of funds reported 
        under paragraph (1) and the costs reported under paragraph (2); 
        and
            (4) a calculation of the change in participation based on 
        paragraph (3).
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