---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6810"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6810"
heading: "Volunteers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6810"
units:
  - "Chapter 87 — Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement"
---

# §6810. Volunteers

- (a) **Authority to use volunteers—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/6801.md?p=11) may use volunteers, as appropriate, to collect [recreation fees](/usc/16/6801.md?p=7) and sell [recreation passes](/usc/16/6801.md?p=8).
- (b) **Waiver or discount of fees; site-specific agency pass—** In exchange for volunteer services, the [Secretary](/usc/16/6801.md?p=11) may waive or discount an [entrance fee](/usc/16/6801.md?p=1), [standard amenity recreation fee](/usc/16/6801.md?p=15), or an [expanded amenity recreation fee](/usc/16/6801.md?p=2) that would otherwise apply to the volunteer or issue to the volunteer a site-specific agency pass authorized under [section 6804(c) of this title](/usc/16/6804.md?p=c).
- (c) **National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass—** In accordance with the guidelines issued under [section 6804(a)(7) of this title](/usc/16/6804.md?p=a-7), the [Secretaries](/usc/16/6801.md?p=10) may issue a [National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass](/usc/16/6801.md?p=5) to a volunteer in exchange for significant volunteer services performed by the volunteer.
- (d) **Regional multientity passes—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/6801.md?p=11) may issue a regional multientity pass authorized under [section 6804(d) of this title](/usc/16/6804.md?p=d) to a volunteer in exchange for significant volunteer services performed by the volunteer, if the regional multientity pass agreement under which the regional multientity pass was established provides for the issuance of the pass to volunteers.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–447, div. J, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3389.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 6804 of this title, referred to in subsecs. (b) to (d), was in the original a reference to section 5, and was translated as meaning section 805 of title VIII of div. J of Pub. L. 108–447, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.