---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6235"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6235"
heading: "Deposit and expenditure of use fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6235"
units:
  - "Chapter 81A — National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement"
---

# §6235. Deposit and expenditure of use fees

- (a) **Deposit and availability—** Unless subject to [section 580d of this title](/usc/16/580d.md), use fees collected by the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) under this chapter shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury and shall remain available to the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) for expenditure, without further appropriation until expended, for the purposes described in [subsection (c)](#c).
- (b) **Transfer—** Upon request of the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2), the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) of the Treasury shall transfer to the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) from the special account such amounts as the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) may request. The [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) shall accept and use such amounts in accordance with [subsection (c)](#c).
- (c) **Use—** Use fees deposited pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) and transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/16/6231.md?p=c-2) under [subsection (b)](#b) shall be expended for monitoring of Forest Service special use authorizations, administration of the Forest Service’s special program, interpretive programs, environmental analysis, environmental restoration, and similar purposes.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title V, § 506, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 297.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, which was translated as reading “this title”, meaning title V of div. F of Pub. L. 108–7, known as the National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement Act of 2003, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.