[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4281-4282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1407]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Recreation Resource Advisory Committees Charter Reestablishment

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to reestablish the Recreation Resource 
Advisory Committees.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of Agriculture intends to reestablish the 
charter for 5 Forest Service Recreation Resource Advisory Committees 
(Recreation RACs) pursuant to Section 4 of the Federal Lands Recreation 
Enhancement Act passed into law as part of the 2005 Consolidated 
Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 108-447) on December 8, 2004. The 
Recreation RACs operate in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, 
Eastern, and Southern Regions of the Forest Service and the State of 
Colorado, and provide recreation fee recommendations to both the Forest 
Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as appropriate.

DATES: As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, charters for 
federal advisory committees must be renewed every 2 years. The current 
charter for the Recreation RACs expired on October 2, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Cox, National Recreation RAC 
Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 333 SW 1st 
Avenue, Portland, OR 97208, 503-808-2984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA), signed in 
December 2004, directs the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
the Interior, or both to establish Recreation RACs, or use existing 
advisory

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committees to perform the duties of Recreation RACs, in each State or 
region for Federal recreation lands and waters managed by the Forest 
Service or the BLM. These committees make recreation fee program 
recommendations on implementing or eliminating standard amenity fees; 
expanded amenity fees; and noncommercial, individual special recreation 
permit fees; expanding or limiting the recreation fee program; and fee-
level changes.
    The REA grants flexibility to Recreation RACs by stating that the 
Secretaries:
     May have as many additional Recreation RACs in a State or 
region as the Secretaries consider necessary;
     Shall not establish a Recreation RAC in a State if the 
Secretaries determine, in consultation with the Governor of the State, 
that sufficient interest does not exist to ensure that participation on 
the committee is balanced in terms of the points of view represented 
and the functions to be performed; or
     May use a resource advisory committee established pursuant 
to another provision of law and in accordance with that law.
    The Secretaries have signed an Interagency Agreement that 
authorizes the Forest Service to use existing BLM RACs and the BLM to 
use Forest Service Recreation RACs for the purposes stated in REA.

    Dated: December 13, 2010.
Pearlie S. Reed,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-1407 Filed 1-24-11; 8:45 am]
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