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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 81A — National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement

§ 6236. Ministerial issuance, or amendment authorization

Statutory text

(a)

NEPA exception

The ministerial issuance or amendment of an organizational camp special use authorization shall not be subject to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).

(b)

Rule of construction

For purposes of subsection (a), the ministerial issuance or amendment of an authorization occurs only when the issuance or amendment of the authorization would not change the physical environment or the activities, facilities, or program of the operations governed by the authorization, and at least one of the following apply:

(1)

The authorization is issued upon a change in control of the holder of an existing authorization.

(2)

The holder, upon expiration of an authorization, is issued a new authorization.

(3)

The authorization is amended—

(A)

to effectuate administrative changes, such as modification of the land use fee or conversion to a new special use authorization form; or

(B)

to include nondiscretionary environmental standards or to conform with current law.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2003

    Pub. L. 108–7 div. F title V § 507 · 117 Stat. 11

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 6236

    (Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title V, § 507, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 297.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title V, § 507, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 297.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 507. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall transmit to the Congress by April 1, 2003, a cross-cut budget displaying, by fiscal year, all CALFED Bay-Delta Program related expenditures by the Federal Government, actual and projected, for fiscal years 1996 through 2004.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 91–190, , 83 Stat. 852, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (§ 4321 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4321 of Title 42 and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title V, § 507, , 117 Stat. 297.)

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