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White Sands National Park Announces Commercial Use Authorizations for Photography Workshops

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News Release Date: August 31, 2022
Contact: Kelly Carroll, 575-479-6124 ext. 230

ALAMOGORDO – Commercial Use Authorizations (CUA) are a permitting tool used by the National Park Service (NPS) to allow private business to be conducted within a national park for a calendar year. The service a CUA holder provides must be considered appropriate by the NPS. White Sands National Park will accept applications for 2023 Photography Workshop CUAs beginning October 1, 2022.

The CUA program requires an application fee, per Public Law 105-391, Section 418. The law requires NPS to collect a reasonable fee for CUAs at an amount at least sufficient to recover the costs of administering and managing the CUA program. The CUA application fee is $250.

Details and applications can be found at https://www.nps.gov/whsa/getinvolved/cua.htm.

White Sands may consider additional business types in the future; however, CUA applications for Photography Workshops are the only applications being accepted.

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