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HJM020........................................by RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
FEDERAL LANDS RECREATION ENHANCEMENT ACT - Stating findings of the
Legislature and declaring that should the Federal Lands Recreation
Enhancement Act be repealed, then the authority for permitting outfitters
and guides on public lands should be replaced immediately to allow for
outfitter and guide operations to continue uninterrupted and declaring that
the outfitter special use fee that is currently assessed should be
reauthorized under a new authority and returned to the managing agency for
outfitter permit administration rather than being designated for other
uses.
03/02 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/03 Rpt prt - to 2nd rdg
03/06 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/07 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Mitchell
Title apvd - to Senate
03/08 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Env
03/14 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
03/15 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Little
Title apvd - to House
03/16 To enrol
03/17 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/20 Pres signed
03/21 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2006
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 20
BY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, H.R. 3283, 108th
9 United States Congress, was introduced in the United States House of Represen-
10 tatives and would have authorized the United States Forest Service, the United
11 States Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
12 the National Park Service, and the United States Bureau of Reclamation to
13 charge visitor fees for recreation on publicly owned lands; and
14 WHEREAS, H.R. 3283 was not voted on separately in the United States House
15 of Representatives and was not introduced in, did not have hearings in, and
16 was not approved by the United States Senate, but instead was attached to the
17 omnibus spending bill, H.R. 4818, by the 108th United States Congress, as an
18 appropriation rider; and
19 WHEREAS, the sponsors of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and
20 others have an unrealistic expectation that recreation fees will pay for much
21 of the cost of management of public lands even though users cannot control
22 costs associated with such management, including costs relating to federal
23 mandates and costs associated with subsequent legal actions; and
24 WHEREAS, the establishment of state or regional recreational resource
25 advisory committees as required under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement
26 Act has not occurred; and
27 WHEREAS, most of the state's 400-plus licensed outfitters and guides
28 require special use permits from federal land management agencies in order to
29 operate legally on Idaho's public lands and waters and the Federal Lands Rec-
30 reation and Enhancement Act permits the return of the special use permit fee
31 that outfitters pay for the privilege of operating on public lands and waters
32 to the source from which it is generated rather than being deposited into the
33 Federal Treasury; and
34 WHEREAS, the Idaho outfitter and guide industry is a major component of
35 the outdoor recreation sector of the Idaho tourism industry and the Idaho Leg-
36 islature recognizes the benefit that the Idaho outfitter and guide industry
37 provides to the public and the economy of the state of Idaho, particularly to
38 the rural economy of the state of Idaho, recognizing that approximately
39 200,000 visitors use Idaho outfitter and guide services annually and contrib-
40 ute an estimated $50,000,000 to the Idaho economy.
41 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
42 sion of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and
43 the Senate concurring therein, that the Legislature of the State of Idaho
44 declares that should the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act be repealed,
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1 then the authority for permitting outfitters and guides on public lands should
2 be replaced immediately to allow for outfitter and guide operations to con-
3 tinue uninterrupted.
4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that should the Federal Lands Recreation Enhance-
5 ment Act be repealed that the outfitter special use fee that is currently
6 assessed shall be reauthorized under a new authority and returned to the man-
7 aging agency for outfitter permit administration rather than being designated
8 for other uses.
9 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa-
10 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
11 Memorial to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
12 sentatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the
13 State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 16183
This legislation is a House Joint Memorial that addresses
concerns of Idaho's outfitters and guides industry should the
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act be repealed. Should the
Act be repealed, the legislation allows for the permitting
authority for outfitters and guides to be replaced immediately,
and for the outfitter special use fee to be reauthorized under a
new authority.
FISCAL NOTE
There is no fiscal impact.
Contact
Name: Representative Mike Mitchell
Phone: (208) 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE HJM 20