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Organizational Fee Fairness Act

H.R. 8630 · 116th Congress · Oct 20, 2020 · Lineage

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.”