Five agencies are named as Federal land or water management agencies
To provide for the standardization, consolidation, and publication of data relating to public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways among Federal land and water management agencies, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Five agencies are named as Federal land or water management agencies
The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The term ``Federal land or water management agency'' means-- (A) the Bureau of Reclamation; (B) the National Park Service; (C) the Bureau of Land Management; (D) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and (E) the Forest Service.”
Defines Federal land or water management agency as a closed list of five: the Bureau of Reclamation, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Service.
What the document actually says
“The term ``Federal land or water management agency'' means-- (A) the Bureau of Reclamation; (B) the National Park Service; (C) the Bureau of Land Management; (D) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and (E) the Forest Service.”
That sentence, in plain words
The term covers five agencies. The law names each one. No other agency is on the list.
What this is about
Four of the five sit in the Interior. The Forest Service sits under the farm agency. The list is used in the fishing rule above and in section 4.
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Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, Public Law 119-62, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 1979 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ62/html/PLAW-119publ62.htm
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“Five agencies are named as Federal land or water management agencies,” Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/modernizing-access-our-public-waters-act-2025/proposal/sec02-federal-land-or-water-management-agency/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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