How to Become a Licensed Outfitter
Builds guide sites for a livingPublished July 8, 2026Last updated July 27, 20269 min read
- There is no federal outfitter licence, only a permit relationship with the land manager.
- Receipts percentages are capped at 5 percent for group and event permits, 3 percent for temporary and long-term.
- A $6 per visitor-use day default applies where no predetermined fee has been established.
- Initial screening applies nine minimum requirements, and failing any one ends the process.
- Park authorisations cap at $25,000 in annual gross receipts, run two years, and carry no renewal right.
Most people asking this expect a licence with a number on it. What actually exists is a permit relationship with whoever owns the ground, and the terms are published in statute and regulation rather than on any application form. Two federal frameworks carry most of it, and both were amended recently enough that older advice is now wrong. The rest of this ground sits on the guide licensing hub.
What an outfitting authorisation actually is
| Framework | What it governs |
|---|---|
| Federal recreation fee statute | Special recreation permits and what they cost |
| Forest special use regulation | How a proposal is screened and accepted |
| Park service authorisation statute | A separate, capped, short-term route |
| State schemes | Present in some states, absent in others |
What is the permit actually called?
A special recreation permit, on most federal ground.
Federal statute hands the Secretary the power to set charges on federally managed recreation ground and water, to alter them, and to take the money in.
Within that, the Secretary must develop and make available to the public an application for several described categories of special recreation permit, and may develop one for a further category.
On review of a completed application and a determination that the applicant is eligible, the Secretary may issue the permit subject to any terms and conditions determined necessary.
A permit issued that way may include authorisation for sales that are incidental in nature to the permitted use, except where otherwise prohibited by law.
That statute is published at 16 U.S.C. 6802, with the text carrying laws in effect on 26 July 2026.
Nothing in it resembles a professional licence, and that is the first thing worth internalising.
How much does it cost?
A percentage of receipts, or a set figure, and you choose.
For a permit covering single organised group activities, events or competitive events, the provider elects between a predetermined fee and a percentage of adjusted gross receipts, with that percentage not exceeding 5 percent.
For temporary permits and long-term permits, the same choice exists with the percentage not exceeding 3 percent.
Predetermined fees are either a fixed amount per permit, possibly with a size limit or other criteria, or an amount assessed per visitor-use day.
The statute sets a default where none has been established: beginning two years after 4 January 2025, that predetermined figure is $6 per visitor-use day.
Separately, the Secretary may still charge a minimum annual fee for temporary and long-term permits.
The election between percentage and predetermined fee is the provider's, which is a genuinely useful piece of leverage most operators never exercise.
Which election is cheaper, in numbers. Take the two published routes and run an invented operation through both. Assume 120 client-days in a season on covered federal water, at $600 a day, all of it inside the permit area, with no goods or merchandise sold. Gross is $72,000. Under the receipts route for a long-term permit, the ceiling is 3 percent, which is $2,160 for the season. Under the visitor-use-day route at the statutory default of $6, the same season is 120 days at $6, or $720. On those numbers the predetermined fee is roughly a third of the receipts route, and the gap widens as the day rate rises because one figure scales with price and the other does not. Now invert it: a low-rate, high-volume operation running 600 short trips would pay $3,600 under the day route, and a receipts calculation on the same revenue could land lower. The election exists precisely because those two shapes of business are different. The percentages, the default figure and the two calculation methods are quoted from statute; the operation, the day rate and both totals are invented illustration, and the actual figure applying to any real permit depends on what that office has established.
What counts as adjusted gross receipts?
Two published calculations, and the provider elects between them.
The first multiplies the general amount participants paid for the trip, excluding goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food supplied or sold, by the proportion of the trip's days that occurred on covered federal land, rounded to the nearest whole day.
To that it adds any additional revenue received for an add-on activity or optional excursion that occurred on the covered land.
The second starts from the total paid by participants, including add-ons and optional excursions on covered land, then subtracts three things.
Those are revenue from goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food; costs or revenues from services and activities that occurred somewhere other than the covered land, travel and lodging outside it included; and revenue from any service for an activity on federal land not covered by that permit.
Both are published in the same section, and which produces a lower figure depends entirely on how a trip is structured.
Anybody running mixed trips that cross in and out of a permit area should calculate both before electing.
How are fees set in the first place?
Against published criteria, one of which names you.
The statute ties the size of a charge to what the visitor actually gets for it, which is stated as a criterion rather than left to discretion.
A second criterion asks what all these charges add up to for two groups taken together: the visiting public, and the businesses selling them trips. That second group is you, named in the statute.
Three more follow: what similar charges look like at other sites, whether levied by another government body or by a commercial operator working nearby; what management or policy aim the charge is meant to serve; and the views of the relevant recreation advisory committee.
One further provision pushes the other way entirely: keep the count of separate charges as low as possible, and do not stack several of them on top of one another for what amounts to the same use.
An operator facing what looks like duplicate charging has a published sentence to point at, which is worth knowing before the conversation.
Fee comparisons across state schemes are covered in the licence cost piece.
How does the forest service route work?
Two screens, and the first one is absolute.
Special use regulation requires a proponent to contact the responsible office as early as possible in advance of the proposed use, and proposals may be filed in writing or presented orally to the district ranger or forest supervisor with jurisdiction.
A proposal grants no right or privilege by itself; rights to occupy and use those lands are conveyed only through issuance of the authorisation.
Initial screening applies nine minimum requirements, and anything failing them shall not receive further evaluation and processing.
They cover consistency with governing law and with state and local health and sanitation rules, consistency with the applicable land and resource management plan, and an absence of serious or substantial risk to public health or safety.
They also exclude uses creating an exclusive or perpetual right, uses unreasonably conflicting with agency or existing uses, and proponents carrying delinquent debt to the agency.
That regulation is published at 36 CFR 251.54, shown as current to 23 July 2026.
What is in the second screen?
Five grounds for rejection, and two are about you.
A proposal that clears the first screen and carries the required information proceeds to second-level screening, where the officer may request further information.
The officer shall reject where the use would be inconsistent or incompatible with the purposes for which the lands are managed, or with other uses.
Rejection also follows where the use would not be in the public interest.
Then the two personal ones: where the proponent is not qualified, and where the proponent cannot demonstrate technical or economic feasibility, or the financial or technical capability to undertake the use and comply fully with the terms.
The fifth is where nobody is authorised to sign the authorisation, or nobody is willing to accept responsibility for adhering to its terms.
A proposal failing the criteria is expressly not an agency proposal for environmental review purposes, which is why rejection can be quick.
What separates the two operating models is covered in the guide and outfitter piece.
What do they want to see from you?
Evidence of capability, not enthusiasm.
The regulation requires sufficient evidence to satisfy the authorised officer that the proponent has, or will have before commencement, the technical and financial capability to construct, operate, maintain and terminate the project, and is otherwise acceptable.
It also requires a project description with maps and appropriate resource information, in enough detail for the officer to judge feasibility, public benefit, safety, the lands used, the terms to be included, and compliance.
Where the proponent is a company, evidence of incorporation and current good standing may be requested, along with shareholder and affiliate details above a stated threshold.
Partnerships and unincorporated bodies may be asked for the agreement creating them or a certificate of good standing.
Any further information the officer requires must be requested in writing.
Assembling that package before the first conversation is what separates a proposal that moves from one that stalls.
The bonding side of the same question is in the bonding piece.
What guidance are you entitled to?
Eight named topics, and most proponents never ask.
Where a proposal passes the minimum requirements, the officer shall to the extent practicable provide guidance on possible land use conflicts identified from management plans, landownership records and other readily available sources.
Also on proposal and application procedures and probable time requirements, on proponent qualifications, and on applicable fees, charges, bonding and security requirements.
Then on necessary associated clearances, permits and licences, environmental and management considerations, special conditions, and identification of any on-the-ground investigations needing temporary use permits.
That list is effectively a checklist for the meeting, and asking for each item by name changes the quality of the answer.
There is also a confidentiality provision: at the proponent's request, and to the extent reasonable and authorised by law, project and programme information revealed during pre-application contacts shall be held confidential.
Almost nobody asks for that, and anybody proposing something commercially sensitive should.
The cover each office may require is covered in the insurance requirements piece.
Is the park service route different?
Completely, and it is capped.
Commercial use authorisations for park system units are created by their own statute, and one is expressly not a concession contract.
They may authorise only services the Secretary determines will have minimal impact on unit resources and values, and that are consistent with the unit's establishing purpose and with applicable management plans, policies and regulations.
The Secretary must require a reasonable fee, used at a minimum to recover associated management and administrative costs, and must take appropriate steps to limit the liability of the United States arising from the services.
There is also an express limit on numbers: no authority to issue more of them than is consistent with preservation and proper management of unit resources and values.
That statute is published at 54 U.S.C. 101925.
An operator planning around park water needs to read it before planning anything else.
Learning the trade under somebody already holding these permits is covered in the apprenticeship piece.
What are the hard limits on that route?
A receipts cap, a two-year term, and no renewal right.
Where a business both begins and delivers its service entirely inside the unit, the authorisation reaches it only while what it takes in across a year stays at or under $25,000.
Alternatively it covers the incidental use of unit resources by operations providing services that originate and terminate outside the boundaries, or uses by organised children's camps, outdoor clubs and nonprofit institutions including back country use.
Nonprofit institutions do not need one unless taxable income is derived from the authorised use.
No construction of any structure, fixture or improvement on federally owned land inside the unit is permitted under it.
And the term shall not exceed two years, with no preferential right of renewal or similar renewal provision granted.
Holding one does not preclude submitting a proposal for a concession contract, which is the route beyond that ceiling.
Which of these applies to a fishing operation?
Whichever agency owns the water, and often more than one.
A river running through national forest, then public land, then a park unit crosses three permitting regimes in a day's float.
Each has its own application, its own screening and its own fee basis, and clearing one says nothing about the others.
Where a take-out sits inside a different jurisdiction from the put-in, both are in play regardless of where the fishing happened.
Mapping the ownership of every launch, bank and take-out you intend to use is the actual first step, before any form.
Agencies will tell you which regime applies if you ask with a map rather than a description.
What the vessel side of that adds is covered in the federal and state licences piece.
The state layer on top of that is covered in the state requirements piece.
Where do the state schemes fit?
On top, and they vary from comprehensive to absent.
Some states run outfitter licensing with examinations, sponsorship requirements and defined operating areas; others have no scheme of any kind.
Where a state scheme exists it sits alongside the federal permit rather than replacing it, and satisfying one does nothing for the other.
Where none exists, federal permits and private landowner agreements carry the whole weight.
The word outfitter itself is defined differently between states, which is why comparisons across state lines mislead so consistently.
Start from the agency that owns your water rather than from any general description of what an outfitter is.
The starting question sits in the licence question piece.
What do experienced operators do differently?
They start the conversation a year out.
An established outfitter treats the permitting office as a relationship rather than a form, and speaks to it in the off-season.
They ask for the eight guidance topics by name, and they ask for the fee basis in writing before electing between the percentage and the predetermined figure.
They calculate both receipts methods on a realistic season rather than accepting the first one offered.
They also read the amendment history, because the fee provisions were rewritten in January 2025 and much of the advice circulating predates it.
And they keep the map of jurisdictions current, because boundaries and management plans change.
How long the whole process runs is covered in the timeline piece.
What surprises people?
Six things, and the first is that there is no licence.
That what exists is a permit relationship with a land manager rather than a professional credential with a number.
That the receipts percentage is capped at 5 percent for group and competitive event permits and 3 percent for temporary and long-term ones.
That a statutory default of $6 per visitor-use day applies where no predetermined fee has been established, from two years after January 2025.
That the provider, not the agency, elects between the percentage and the predetermined fee, and between two receipts calculations.
That the park service route is capped at $25,000 in annual gross receipts for services provided solely within a unit.
And that a park authorisation runs two years at most with no preferential right of renewal.
Together they explain why becoming an outfitter is a mapping and negotiation problem rather than an examination one.
Where does this go wrong?
Five failures, and each is avoidable a year out.
Looking for a licence to apply for, when the answer is a permit from whoever owns the ground.
Mapping the fishing without mapping the jurisdictions, then discovering a take-out sits in a different regime.
Accepting the first fee basis offered without calculating the alternative the statute lets you elect.
Reading advice written before the January 2025 amendments, which rewrote the whole fee structure.
And arriving at a permitting office in spring with a description rather than a package.
None of those is about competence on the water, which is the part most applicants have already sorted.
Whether formal training helps with any of it is covered in the guide schools piece.
Becoming an outfitter, in order
Map, ask, package, elect.
Map every launch, bank and take-out you intend to use, and establish which agency owns each.
Contact each responsible office as early as possible, in the off-season, and ask for the eight named guidance topics.
Ask for confidentiality over anything commercially sensitive shared before an application exists.
Build the capability package first: entity documents, project description with maps, and evidence of technical and financial capability.
Calculate both receipts methods and the visitor-use-day route on a realistic season before electing.
Check whether a park unit is involved, because that route is capped and short-term with no renewal right.
And verify the current fee figures, thresholds and application requirements with each issuing office directly before you rely on any of this, since these provisions were amended in 2025 and continue to change.
This page is not legal advice and describes no particular permit, office or operation. The statutes and regulations quoted set out frameworks and ceilings; the figure actually charged for any permit depends on what the responsible office has established, on the category of permit, and on determinations the quoted text leaves to the Secretary. The calculation panel applies quoted percentages and the statutory default figure to an invented operation and is illustration rather than a quotation or a prediction. State outfitter schemes are described in general terms only, vary substantially, and are not summarised for any state here. Nothing on this page states what any state requires. The federal fee provisions were substantially amended in January 2025, so material published before then is unreliable, and further amendment should be assumed. Verify the current requirements, fee bases and thresholds with each issuing agency office before you rely on anything written here.
How this was checked. The fee framework is quoted from 16 U.S.C. 6802, Recreation fee authority, as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and read on 27 July 2026, with the page stating that the text contains those laws in effect on 26 July 2026 and recording amendments by Public Law 118-234, title III, sections 311(b) and 322(c), 4 January 2025. Taken from it: that beginning in fiscal year 2005 and thereafter the Secretary may establish, modify, charge and collect recreation fees at Federal recreational lands and waters as provided in the section; that recreation fees shall be established in a manner consistent with criteria including that the amount shall be commensurate with the benefits and services provided to the visitor, that the Secretary shall consider the aggregate effect of recreation fees on recreation users and recreation service providers, shall consider comparable fees charged elsewhere and by other public agencies and by nearby private sector operators, shall consider the public policy or management objectives served, and shall obtain input from the appropriate Recreation Resource Advisory Committee; that the Secretary shall establish the minimum number of recreation fees and shall avoid the collection of multiple or layered recreation fees for similar uses, activities or programs; that the Secretary may develop and make available to the public an application for one described category of special recreation permit and shall do so for three others; that on review of a completed application and a determination that the applicant is eligible, the Secretary may issue the permit subject to any terms and conditions determined necessary; that a special recreation permit may include an authorization for sales that are incidental in nature to the permitted use, except where otherwise prohibited by law; that a predetermined fee shall be either a fixed fee assessed per permit, including a fee with an associated size limitation or other criteria, or an amount assessed per visitor-use day; that beginning on the date two years after 4 January 2025, a predetermined fee shall be $6 per visitor-use day where the Secretary has not established one under the other listed subclauses; that for a permit described in section 6801(13)(A)(iii) the Secretary shall charge the recreation service provider, based on the provider's election, either the applicable predetermined fee or an amount equal to a percentage, to be determined by the Secretary but not to exceed 5 percent, of adjusted gross receipts; that for a permit described in section 6801(13)(A)(iv) the same election applies with the percentage not to exceed 3 percent; that adjusted gross receipts are calculated by one of two published methods at the provider's election, the first being the sum of the general amount paid by participants for the trip or event excluding amounts related to goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food provided or sold, multiplied by the quotient of the number of days of the trip that occurred on covered Federal recreational lands and waters rounded to the nearest whole day divided by the total number of days, plus any additional revenue for an add-on activity or optional excursion that occurred on the covered lands, and the second being the total cost paid by participants including such additional revenue, less revenues from goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food, less costs or revenues from services and activities provided in a location other than the covered lands including travel and lodging outside them, and less revenues from any service for an activity on Federal recreational lands and waters not covered by the permit; that notwithstanding the temporary and long-term permit provision the Secretary may charge a minimum annual fee; that nothing in that paragraph affects fees for a concession contract administered by the National Park Service or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or for a commercial use authorization or special use permit for lands managed by the National Park Service; and that a recreation service provider may inform a customer of any fee charged by the Secretary under the section. The special use process is quoted from 36 CFR 251.54, Proposal and application requirements and procedures, as published on the eCFR and read the same day, with the site showing title 36 up to date as of 23 July 2026 and last amended 5 June 2026. Taken from it: that a proponent is required to contact the responsible Forest Service office as early as possible in advance of the proposed use; that proposals must be filed in writing with or presented orally to the District Ranger or Forest Supervisor having jurisdiction; that a proposal to obtain a special use authorization does not grant any right or privilege to use National Forest System lands, and that rights or privileges are conveyed only through issuance of a special use authorization; that the proponent must provide sufficient evidence to satisfy the authorized officer that the proponent has, or prior to commencement of construction will have, the technical and financial capability to construct, operate, maintain and terminate the project, and is otherwise acceptable; that a project description including maps and appropriate resource information must be provided in sufficient detail to enable the officer to determine feasibility, any benefits to be provided to the public, the safety of the proposal, the lands to be occupied or used, the terms and conditions to be included, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations and orders; that initial screening applies nine minimum requirements, including consistency with governing law and with applicable State and local health and sanitation laws, consistency with the applicable forest land and resource management plan, absence of serious or substantial risk to public health or safety, no creation of an exclusive or perpetual right of use or occupancy, no unreasonable conflict with administrative or existing uses or with adjacent non-System lands, no delinquent debt owed by the proponent to the Forest Service, and exclusion of gambling, sexually oriented commercial services, non-federally-funded military or paramilitary training, and disposal of solid waste or radioactive or other hazardous substances; that any proposed use failing those requirements shall not receive further evaluation and processing; that guidance to proponents covers possible land use conflicts, proposal and application procedures and probable time requirements, proponent qualifications, applicable fees, charges, bonding and security requirements, necessary associated clearances, permits and licences, environmental and management considerations, special conditions, and identification of on-the-ground investigations requiring temporary use permits; that at the proponent's request the authorized officer shall, to the extent reasonable and authorized by law, hold confidential any project and program information revealed during pre-application contacts; and that at second-level screening an officer shall reject a proposal where the use would be inconsistent or incompatible with the purposes for which the lands are managed or with other uses, where it would not be in the public interest, where the proponent is not qualified, where the proponent does not or cannot demonstrate technical or economic feasibility or the financial or technical capability to undertake the use and fully comply with the terms and conditions, or where there is no person or entity authorized to sign or willing to accept responsibility for the authorization. The park route is quoted from 54 U.S.C. 101925, Commercial use authorizations, as published by the Legal Information Institute and read the same day, showing Public Law 113-287, section 3, 19 December 2014, with a source note to 16 U.S.C. 5966 and Public Law 105-391, title IV, section 418, 13 November 1998. Taken from it: that the Secretary may on request authorize a private person, corporation or other entity to provide services to visitors to System units through a commercial use authorization, and that such an authorization shall not be considered a concession contract; that the authority may be used only to authorize services the Secretary determines will have minimal impact on resources and values of a System unit and are consistent with the purpose for which the unit was established and with all applicable management plans and Service policies and regulations; that the Secretary shall require payment of a reasonable fee, the fees remaining available without further appropriation and used at a minimum to recover associated management and administrative costs, shall require provision of services consistent to the highest practicable degree with preservation and conservation of unit resources and values, shall take appropriate steps to limit the liability of the United States arising from the provision of services, shall have no authority to issue more authorizations than are consistent with preservation and proper management of unit resources and values, and shall establish other appropriate conditions; that any such authorization is limited to commercial operations with annual gross receipts of not more than $25,000 resulting from services originating and provided solely within a System unit, to the incidental use of unit resources by commercial operations providing services originating and terminating outside the boundaries, or to uses by organized children's camps, outdoor clubs and nonprofit institutions including back country use and other uses the Secretary determines appropriate; that nonprofit institutions are not required to obtain one unless taxable income is derived from the authorized use; that such an authorization shall not provide for the construction of any structure, fixture or improvement on federally-owned land within a unit; that the term shall not exceed two years and that no preferential right of renewal or similar provision shall be granted; and that holding one does not preclude submitting a proposal for concession contracts. No state outfitter scheme was examined for this page and none is described. Every practice recommended for approaching a permitting office is practitioner judgement.
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Is there an outfitter licence to apply for?
Not on federal ground, no. What exists is a permit relationship with whoever manages the land or water. Federal statute hands the Secretary the power to set charges on federally managed recreation ground and water, and within that framework the Secretary must make applications available to the public for several described categories of special recreation permit. On review of a completed application and a determination that the applicant is eligible, the Secretary may issue the permit subject to any terms and conditions determined necessary, and the permit may authorise sales incidental in nature to the permitted use except where otherwise prohibited by law. Nothing in the framework resembles a professional credential with a number, which is the first thing worth internalising.
What does a federal permit cost?
A percentage of receipts or a set figure, and the provider elects. For a permit covering single organised group activities, events or competitive events, the election is between a predetermined fee and a percentage of adjusted gross receipts not exceeding 5 percent. For temporary and long-term permits the same election exists with the percentage not exceeding 3 percent. Predetermined fees are either a fixed amount per permit, possibly with a size limit or other criteria, or an amount assessed per visitor-use day. Where none has been established, the statute sets a default of $6 per visitor-use day beginning two years after 4 January 2025. A minimum annual fee may still be charged for temporary and long-term permits.
How are adjusted gross receipts calculated?
By one of two published methods, at the provider's election. The first multiplies what participants paid for the trip, excluding goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food supplied or sold, by the proportion of the trip's days that occurred on covered federal land rounded to the nearest whole day, then adds revenue from add-on activities or optional excursions that occurred on that land. The second starts from the total paid including those add-ons, then subtracts revenue from goods, souvenirs, merchandise, gear and additional food; costs or revenues from services in locations other than the covered land including travel and lodging outside it; and revenue for activities on federal land not covered by that permit.
How does the forest service route work?
Through two screens, and the first is absolute. Regulation requires a proponent to contact the responsible office as early as possible in advance, and proposals may be filed in writing or presented orally to the district ranger or forest supervisor with jurisdiction. A proposal grants no right by itself; rights are conveyed only through issuance of the authorisation. Initial screening applies nine minimum requirements covering consistency with governing law and with state and local health and sanitation rules, consistency with the applicable land and resource management plan, absence of serious or substantial risk to public health or safety, no exclusive or perpetual right, no unreasonable conflict with existing uses, and no delinquent debt owed to the agency.
What gets a proposal rejected at the second screen?
Five named grounds, and two are about the applicant. The officer shall reject where the use would be inconsistent or incompatible with the purposes for which the lands are managed or with other uses, and where the use would not be in the public interest. Then the personal ones: where the proponent is not qualified, and where the proponent cannot demonstrate technical or economic feasibility, or the financial or technical capability to undertake the use and comply fully with the terms. The fifth is where nobody is authorised to sign the authorisation or willing to accept responsibility for its terms. A proposal failing the criteria is expressly not an agency proposal for environmental review, which is why rejection can be quick.
What guidance can I ask the office for?
Eight named topics, and most proponents never ask. Where a proposal passes the minimum requirements, the officer shall to the extent practicable provide guidance on possible land use conflicts identified from management plans and landownership records; on proposal and application procedures and probable time requirements; on proponent qualifications; on applicable fees, charges, bonding and security requirements; on necessary associated clearances, permits and licences; on environmental and management considerations; on special conditions; and on identification of any on-the-ground investigations needing temporary use permits. There is also a confidentiality provision: at the proponent's request, project and programme information revealed during pre-application contacts shall be held confidential to the extent reasonable and authorised by law.
Is the park service route different?
Completely, and it is capped. Commercial use authorisations for park system units come from their own statute, and one is expressly not a concession contract. They may authorise only services determined to have minimal impact on unit resources and values and to be consistent with the unit's establishing purpose and applicable plans and policies. Where a business both begins and delivers its service entirely inside the unit, the authorisation reaches it only while annual gross receipts stay at or under $25,000. No construction of any structure, fixture or improvement on federally owned land within the unit is permitted, the term shall not exceed two years, and no preferential right of renewal is granted.
Sources & methods
- 16 U.S.C. 6802, Recreation fee authority (Office of the Law Revision Counsel)
- 36 CFR 251.54, Proposal and application requirements and procedures (eCFR)
- 54 U.S.C. 101925, Commercial use authorizations (Legal Information Institute)
Every figure here is traced to a named public source and checked against it. Licensing, tax, and fee rules change. Verify your state’s current rules with the agency directly before you count on any number here.
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