[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8630 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8630

 To amend the National Forest Organization Camp Fee Improvement Act of 
 2003 to modify the calculation of land use fees in counties with less 
          than two percent farm land, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2020

   Mr. Cook introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural 
 Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Forest Organization Camp Fee Improvement Act of 
 2003 to modify the calculation of land use fees in counties with less 
          than two percent farm land, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Organizational Fee Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. FEES FOR OCCUPANCY AND USE OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM AND 
              FACILITIES BY ORGANIZATIONAL CAMPS.

    Section 503(a) of The National Forest Organizational Camp Fee 
Improvement Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6232(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``The'' and inserting ``Except as provided in 
        paragraph (5), the''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Rule for covered counties.--
                    ``(A) In general.--With respect to an 
                organizational camp in a covered county, paragraph 
                (1)(B) shall be applied by substituting `State' for 
                `county'.
                    ``(B) Covered county defined.--In this paragraph, 
                the term `covered county' means a county in which less 
                than 2 percent of land is used for farming as reported 
                in the most recent Census of Agriculture conducted by 
                the National Agricultural Statistics Service.''.
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