Organizational Fee Fairness Act

Bill: 116-hr-8630
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2020-10-20
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Farmland

Forests, forestry, trees

Land use and conservation

Outdoor recreation

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Organizational Fee Fairness Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the annual land use fee for organizational camps for their occupancy and use of National Forest System lands in counties in which less than 2% of land is used for farming.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8630 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 20, 2020 Mr. Cook introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture , and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources , 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 A BILL To amend the National Forest Organization Camp Fee Improvement Act of 2003 to modify the calculation of land use fees in counties with less than two percent farm land, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Organizational Fee Fairness Act . 2. Fees for occupancy and use of National Forest System and facilities by organizational camps Section 503(a) of The National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6232(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking The and inserting Except as provided in paragraph (5), the ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (5) Rule for covered counties (A) In general With respect to an organizational camp in a covered county, paragraph (1)(B) shall be applied by substituting State for county . (B) Covered county defined In this paragraph, the term covered county means a county in which less than 2 percent of land is used for farming as reported in the most recent Census of Agriculture conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. .