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Texas: see Texas regs
In New Mexico, carnivals, festivals and circuses fall under the same blanket regulations on State lands; use of federal lands not otherwise controlled are subject to permits from the Bureau of Land Management. Counties and towns have a welter of permit regulations.
Environmental, water and land use regulations are everywhere and necessary.

The 'burning man festival' in Nevada is operating at this time under a two-year permit granted by the federal BLM (Bureau of Land Management). The 'festival' is 'controlled' by its organizers, but this atrocity, held in a unique desert landscape, and which attracts about 30,000 ticket-buying morons, is becoming subject to more regulation as time goes on and complaints multiply. Research is being done on the effects of human use of the playa setting.