16 U.S.C. § 8412 — Identifying opportunities for recreation
submitted 1 year ago by Pub. L. 118-234 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 225 words · no verdicts yet
The responsible Secretary must inventory and assess recreation resources on Federal recreational lands and waters. The assessment must identify values, use, infrastructure, trends, maintenance needs, development suitability, and management adequacy, using existing work when practicable.
(a)(1) The responsible Secretary* must inventory and assess recreation resources on Federal recreational lands and waters*, develop the inventory and assessment with public-comment support, and update it as appropriate. (2) The inventory must recognize unique recreation values and opportunities and areas of concentrated use. It must identify, list, and map resources by recreation-opportunity type and natural or artificial infrastructure type; show available use levels as of the inventory date; and, as far as practicable, identify trends in opportunities or use. (3) For each inventoried resource, the Secretary must assess maintenance needs and administration expenses, suitability for development, expansion, or improvement, and whether current management is adequate. (b) As far as practicable, the Secretary must use or incorporate applicable existing research, planning decisions, and processes. (c) Omitted in the supplied statute text.
The Secretary concerned* shall—
conduct an inventory and assessment of recreation resources for Federal recreational lands and waters*;
develop the inventory and assessment with support from public comment; and
update the inventory and assessment as the Secretary* concerned determines appropriate.
An inventory and assessment conducted under paragraph (1) shall—
recognize—
any unique recreation values and recreation opportunities; and
areas of concentrated recreational use; and
identify, list, and map recreation resources by—
type of recreation opportunity and type of natural or artificial recreation infrastructure;
to the extent available, the level of use of the recreation resource as of the date of the inventory; and
identifying, to the extent practicable, any trend relating to recreation opportunities or use at a recreation resource identified under subparagraph (A).
For any recreation resource inventoried under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall assess—
the maintenance needs of, and expenses necessary to administer, the recreation resource;
the suitability for developing, expanding, or enhancing the recreation resource; and
the adequacy of the current management of the recreation resource.
To the extent practicable, the Secretary concerned shall use or incorporate existing applicable research and planning decisions and processes in carrying out this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 112, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2838.)
- 2025Enacted · Pub. L. 118-234 · 138 Stat. 2838
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