~ key Government powers & policies…
[[ IN DEVELOPMENT — from archives and links to www.Prop1.org, with Thanks]…
• Federal Register, Vol. 58: No. 86, pp. 26940-26946 __/ USDA Forest Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) re: “Noncommercial Group Events” and “Noncommercial Distribution of Literature” in the National Forests, 5/6/1993.
http://prop1.org/legal/cfrregs/fr58n86a.htm (pp. 26940-43)
http://prop1.org/legal/cfrregs/fr58n86b.htm (pp. 26943-46)
• Federal Register, Vol. __: No. __, p. ___ __/ USDA Forest Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) re: ‘Law Enforcement’ authorities in the National Forests, 2/16/1994. As a result of PCU’s “Son of FrankenRegs” public info & petition campaign, these expanded police powers were widely opposed across the political spectrum and in Congress – and the proposal was withdrawn by USFS Chief Jack Ward Thomas on the final day of the comment period, 5/18/1994.
• Federal Register, Vol. 60: No. 168, pp. 45258-45295 __/ Final Rule publication re: “Noncommercial Group Use”, with USFS responses to public comment letters, 8/30/1995. These regulations took effect 30 days later, on 9/29/1995.
Preamble | http://prop1.org/rainbow/fedreg/regpre1.htm
Background | http://prop1.org/rainbow/fedreg/regpre2.htm
Comments | http://prop1.org/rainbow/fedreg/comm1.htm
Regulations | http://prop1.org/rainbow/fedreg/rbowregs.htm
• 36 CFR 251, 261 (Dec. 1995) __/ Code of Federal Regulations, ‘Special Use’ & ‘Prohibitions’ sections as amended by the Noncommercial Group Use regulations. Early legal challenges (1996-2000) referenced provisions of this version of the Code.
| November, 1995 | National Forest Service Information Talking Points | Questions & Answers | Facts | Followup |
• Federal Register, Vol. __: No. __, p. ___ __/ Final publication of extensive amendments to USFS ‘Special Use’ provisions, 9/–/1998. These sweeping revisions were pending since 1992 and not disclosed in conjunction with the Group Use amendments – nor were stakeholders notified when enacted. Early court cases kept referencing the prior CFR version for several years… we did not discover that they were in effect until 2001.
• 36 CFR 251, 261 (Dec. 1998) __/ The same CFR sections as amended by the Special Use rulemaking of 1998, re-structured in format such that provisions of concern had new numeric cites. Rainbow ‘permit cases’ after 2001 had altered rule cites in accord.
• USFS Vehicle Check Point Policies (Sep. 1998) __/
• USFS ‘Interpretive Rule’ (9 Sep. 1999) __/
• Noncommercial Group Use Permit – FS-2700-3b __/
(sample form, App + Permit… online version, May 2023)