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Forest Service Manual 2720 provides guidance for Forest Service Special Uses administration, including outfitting and guiding service.  The Forest Service, is seeking public comment on a proposed revision to a directive supplement for the Alaska Region that would require an outfitting and guiding permit for strictly point-to-point commercial transportation to, from, and within the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center subunit of the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area (Visitor Center subunit) in the Alaska Region of the Forest Service (Alaska Region).  

Action

The Forest Service is implementing changes to the Alaska Region Supplement to Forest Service Manual 2720 directive. These changes include the following:

• Revises the definition of “guiding” for purposes of the Alaska Region, and for consistency with the definition of “guiding” in Forest Service regulations.
• Requires an outfitting and guiding permit for all strictly point-to-point commercial transportation (including services provided by Transportation Network Companies) to, from, and within the Visitor Center subunit of Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area.
• The permit requirement would apply only during the cruise season as reflected in the calendar published annually by Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska.