Bill Sponsor
Senate Bill 2335
115th Congress(2017-2018)
GO Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Jan 24, 2018
Overview
Text
Introduced
Jan 24, 2018
Latest Action
Jan 24, 2018
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill
The primary form of legislative measure used to propose law. Depending on the chamber of origin, bills begin with a designation of either H.R. or S. Joint resolution is another form of legislative measure used to propose law.
Bill Number
2335
Congress
115
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Primary focus of measure is natural areas (including wilderness); lands under government jurisdiction; land use practices and policies; parks, monuments, and historic sites; fisheries and marine resources; mining and minerals. Measures concerning energy supplies and production may fall under Energy policy area.
Sponsorship by Party
Republican
South Dakota
Republican
Colorado
Republican
South Dakota
Senate Votes (0)
House Votes (0)
No Senate votes have been held for this bill.
Summary

Guides and Outfitters Act or the GO Act

This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to specify the circumstances under which the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) may: (1) issue special recreation permits for federal recreational lands and waters, and (2) change a special recreation permit fee.

Interior and USDA may issue special recreation permits:

  • for specialized individual and group use of federal facilities and federal recreational lands and waters;
  • to recreation service providers who conduct outfitting, guiding, and other recreation services on federal recreational lands and waters; and
  • to recreation service providers who conduct recreation or competitive events, which may involve incidental sales on federal recreational lands and waters.

USDA and Interior shall implement a program that authorizes temporary permits for new recreational uses of federal recreational lands and waters managed by the Forest Service or the BLM, respectively.

Interior and USDA shall revise certain:

  • special land use and special recreation permit regulations to streamline the processes for the issuance and renewal of outfitter and guide special use permits, and
  • cost recovery fee regulations to reduce costs and minimize the burden of cost recovery on small businesses and adverse impacts of cost recovery on jobs in the outfitting and guiding industry and on rural economies.
Text (1)
January 24, 2018
Actions (2)
01/24/2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
01/24/2018
Introduced in Senate
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:38:52 PM