# Definition of a Ski Area
> **Forest Service** · Interim final rule. · Published 2013-06-28 · Effective 2013-07-29 · 78 FR 38842
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-15476
- **Category:** forest-service
- **Sub-agency:** Forest Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 38842
- **CFR reference:** 36 CFR 251
- **Publication date:** 2013-06-28
- **Effective date:** 2013-07-29
## Abstract

The Forest Service is amending the definition of a ski area in its regulations to make it consistent with the authority in section 3 of the Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act (SAROEA) of 2011 to allow authorization of other snow sports besides Nordic and alpine skiing and, in appropriate circumstances, other seasonal and year-round natural resource-based recreation activities and associated facilities at ski areas on National Forest System (NFS) lands, provided that authorization of these other activities and facilities would not change the primary purpose of the ski areas to a purpose other than skiing and other snow sports.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/06/28/2013-15476/definition-of-a-ski-area)
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