Committees
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act was reauthorized in Public Law 110-343 for four fiscal years, 2008 through 2011.
The purposes of the Act are to:
- stabilize payments to states for public schools and roads in the counties in which national forests are located
- to invest in the land and create employment opportunities
- to improve cooperative relationships among the people that use and care for national forests and
- to provide funds to counties for certain authorized uses
The Forest Service Secure Rural Schools webpage has information on all four titles of the Act. The Secure Rural Schools Act authorized the establishment of resource advisory committees to improve collaboration among all those who enjoy and care for the national forests; to provide advice to Forest Service about projects that maintain and improve national forest watersheds, ecosystems and habitats; and, to help create employment opportunities. The Forest Service Resource Advisory Committees (RAC) webpage has information about the committees and the Title II projects proposed for funding under the Act.
Federal Advisory Committee Act
The Federal Advisory Committee Act was enacted in 1972 to ensure that advice by the various advisory committees formed over the years is objective and accessible to the public.
- Learn more about the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) by visiting the US General Services Administration (GSA) website.
Recreation Resource Advisory Committees (RRAC)
What Are Recreation Resource Advisory Committees?
The Federal Land Recreation Enhancement Act (REA) gives the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Interior the authority to establish, modify, charge and collect recreation fees at Federal recreational lands. REA also requires the Secretaries to establish Recreation Resource Advisory Committees (Recreation RACs).
The Recreation RACs are Federal Advisory Committees. They provide recommendations on recreation fee proposals on federal lands managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM). All meetings of Recreation RACs are open to the public and include opportunities for public comment.
What Do Recreation Resource Advisory Committees Do?
The Recreation RACs provide recommendations on implementing or eliminating standard amenity fees, expanded amenity fees, and non-commercial individual special recreation permit fees; expanding or limiting the recreation fee program; and fee level changes (increases or decreases).
Recreation RACs do not make recommendations on recreation fee sites operated by a concessionaire or contractor, commercial permits such as outfitting and guiding, or Forest Service special use permits and BLM special recreation permits issued for group events such as bike races.
Rocky Mountain Region RACs
Follow this link to learn more about the Great Rocky Mountain Resource Advisory Committee