16 U.S.C. § 670c — Program for public outdoor recreation

(a) Program. The Defense Secretary may develop, improve, operate, and maintain public outdoor recreation resources at military installations under an integrated plan agreed to with the Interior Secretary, after consultation with the appropriate State agency. (b) Access. (1) Consistent with the primary military mission, the Defense Secretary must, as reasonably practicable, ensure that public outdoor recreation opportunities—including fishing, hunting, trapping, wildlife viewing, boating, and camping—also provide access for the people in (2) when landform, vegetation, and water resources allow access without substantially changing the natural environment. (2) Those people are disabled veterans, military dependents with disabilities, and other people with disabilities when access for them and other civilians is not otherwise restricted. (3) The Defense Secretary must consult the Veterans Affairs Secretary, national service, military, and veterans organizations, and private sporting organizations involved in recreation for those people. (c) Donations. The Defense Secretary may accept volunteers and donated real or personal property for these facilities and programs, especially accessibility. (d) Volunteers. A volunteer is not a Federal employee and is not covered by Federal-employment laws on work hours, pay, leave, unemployment compensation, or benefits, except that the volunteer is treated as a Federal employee for Federal tort claims and as an employee under 5 U.S.C. chapter 81, subchapter I, for work-injury compensation.