---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6852"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6852"
heading: "Interagency data standardization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6852"
units:
  - "Chapter 87A — Modernizing Access to Public Land"
---

# §6852. Interagency data standardization


Not later than 30 months after April 29, 2022, the [Secretaries](/usc/16/6851.md?p=4) shall jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among applicable Federal databases with respect to the collection and dissemination of data—

- (1) relating to recreation sites on [Federal land](/usc/16/6851.md?p=1); and
- (2) used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available to the public.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–114, § 3, Apr. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 1175; Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 354(1), Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2917.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Par. (1). Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “recreation sites” for “public outdoor recreational use”.