[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR71.7]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 71_RECREATION FEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  71.7  Entrance fees for single-visit permits.

    (a) Entrance fees for single-visit permits shall be selected by the 
National Park Service from within the range of fees listed below, 
provided that such fees are established in accordance with the following 
criteria:
    (1) The direct and indirect cost to the Government;
    (2) The benefit to the recipient;
    (3) The public policy or interest served;
    (4) The comparable recreation fees charged by other Federal and non-
Federal public agencies within the service area of the management unit 
at which the fee is charged;
    (5) The economic and administrative feasibility of fee collection; 
and,
    (6) Other pertinent factors.
    (b) There shall be two types of single-visit entrance fees charged 
at Designated Entrance Fee Areas for those persons not covered by either 
Golden Eagle or Golden Age Passports.
    (1) The fee for a single-visit permit applicable to those persons 
entering by private, noncommercial vehicle shall be no more than $3 per 
vehicle. The single-visit permit shall admit the permittee and all 
persons accompanying him in said vehicle. The single-visit permit shall 
be valid only at the one Designated Entrance Fee Area for which it was 
purchased. ``Accompanying,'' for the purpose of this section, shall mean 
entering together with the permittee while being transported by the same 
private, noncommercial vehicle which the permittee occupies.
    (2) The fee for a single-visit permit applicable to those persons 
entering by

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any means other than private, noncommercial vehicle shall be no more 
than $1.50 per person and shall be valid at the one Designated Entrance 
Fee Area for which it is paid.
    (c) Any of the permits provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) of 
this section shall be valid at the Designated Entrance Fee Area for 
which it was purchased during the same calendar day of purchase. In 
addition, at overnight use areas, the single-visit permit shall be valid 
as long as the permittee and those covered by his permit remain within 
the boundaries of the Designated Entrance Fee Area, beginning from the 
first day of entry until the day of departure; except that on the same 
day that the entrance fee is paid, the permittee and those covered by 
the permit may leave and reenter without payment of additional fees.

[39 FR 33217, Sept. 16, 1974, as amended at 41 FR 22563, June 4, 1976. 
Redesignated at 46 FR 34329, July 1, 1981, and correctly redesignated at 
46 FR 43045, Aug. 26, 1981]