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 Oct. 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.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
