Host Community Fairness Act of 2002

Host Community Fairness Act of 2002 - Amends the Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to exempt persons that reside in a county in which a fee demonstration area is located from any recreational user fees imposed for access to such area.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2015 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2015

 To exempt certain users of fee demonstration areas from fees imposed 
            under the recreation fee demonstration program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2002

  Mr. Smith of New Hampshire introduced the following bill; which was 
    read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exempt certain users of fee demonstration areas from fees imposed 
            under the recreation fee demonstration program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Host Community Fairness Act of 
2002''.

SEC. 2. LOCAL EXEMPTIONS FROM USER FEES.

    Section 315 of the Department of Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note; Public 
Law 104-134) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) as 
        subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Local Exemptions From User Fees.--
            ``(1) In general.--A person that resides in a county in 
        which a fee demonstration area is located, in whole or in part, 
        shall be exempt from any recreational user fees imposed under 
        this section for access to any portion of the fee demonstration 
        area.
            ``(2) Administration.--The Secretary of the Interior and 
        the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with affected 
        state and local governments, shall establish a method for 
        identifying and exempting persons covered by this subsection 
        from the user fees.''.
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