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16 USC § 6810 - Volunteers

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s6810"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 6810 - Volunteers"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "6810"
section_name: "Volunteers"
chapter_number: 87
chapter_name: "FEDERAL LANDS RECREATION ENHANCEMENT"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 108–447, div. J, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3389.)"
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# § 6810. Volunteers

**(a)** **Authority to use volunteers** The Secretary may use volunteers, as appropriate, to collect recreation fees and sell recreation passes.

**(b)** **Waiver or discount of fees; site-specific agency pass** section 6804(c) of this title

In exchange for volunteer services, the Secretary may waive or discount an entrance fee, standard amenity recreation fee, or an expanded amenity recreation fee that would otherwise apply to the volunteer or issue to the volunteer a site-specific agency pass authorized under .

**(c)** **National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass** section 6804(a)(7) of this title

In accordance with the guidelines issued under , the Secretaries may issue a National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass to a volunteer in exchange for significant volunteer services performed by the volunteer.

**(d)** **Regional multientity passes** section 6804(d) of this title

The Secretary may issue a regional multientity pass authorized under  to a volunteer in exchange for significant volunteer services performed by the volunteer, if the regional multientity pass agreement under which the regional multientity pass was established provides for the issuance of the pass to volunteers.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 108–447, div. J, title VIII, § 811, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3389.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in subsecs. (b) to (d), was in the original a reference to section 5, and was translated as meaning , to reflect the probable intent of Congress.