Sec. 203. Improved recreation visitation data
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The Secretaries shall establish a single visitation data management and modeling system for public recreation to provide accurate, real-time visitation data, at a site-specific level and in a consistent manner, with respect to Federal land managed by each of— the Chief of the Forest Service; the Director of the Bureau of Land Management; the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in coordination with Indian Tribes; the Director of the National Park Service; the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and the Commissioner of Reclamation.
For purposes of carrying out this section, the Secretary concerned shall coordinate or contract with private sector partners, including— technology companies; mapping companies; experts in data science, analytics, and operations research; or data companies. The Secretaries shall coordinate with trade associations, State outdoor recreation offices, offices of tourism, and local outdoor recreation marketing organizations to design and deploy, for purposes of making data available under subsection (a), the optimum user interface that balances ease of use by the public with the available resources of the Secretaries.
The Secretaries and any partner described in subsection
(b)may make use of smart phone technology for purposes of making data available under subsection (a). Nothing in this section provides authority to the Secretaries— to monitor or record the movements of a visitor to Federal land; to restrict, interfere with, or monitor a private communication of a visitor to Federal land; to take possession of any documents, data, or other personal effects of a visitor to Federal land; or to collect— information from owners of land adjacent to Federal land; or information on non-Federal land. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretaries shall categorize the data collected under subsection
(a)by recreational activity. Information or data collected under this section shall be limited only to actual recreation visitation information for recreation sites managed by the Secretary concerned. Not later than January 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Secretaries shall publish on a website of the Secretaries a report that describes the annual visitation of each unit of Federal land, including, to the maximum extent practicable, visitation categorized by recreational activity.