The Recreation Fee Program has been an important source of that funding and a vital component to the Department's ability to provide quality recreational facilities and services to our visitors. The program significantly enhances the Department's efforts to support a key initiative of President George W. Bush: to address the deferred maintenance backlog at our National Parks. This program also enables us to better manage other federal lands.

The recreation fee effort is currently a demonstration project. The Department supports legislative solutions to provide permanent interagency recreation fee authority and has advocated for a permanent program.