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Public Law 85-157, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 85-157, Aug.
21, 1957, 71 Stat. 391, as amended, known as the Policemen and
Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act amendments of 1957, which
is not classified to the Code.
The Policeman and Fireman's Retirement and Disability Act,
referred to in text, probably means the Policemen and Firemen's
Retirement and Disability Act, act Sept. 1, 1916, ch. 433, Sec. 12,
39 Stat. 718, as amended, which is not classified to the Code.

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16 USC Sec. 15 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 15. Appropriations for purchase of equipment; waterproof
footwear

-STATUTE-
Appropriations whenever made for the National Park Service, which
are available for the purchase of equipment may be used for
purchase of waterproof footwear which shall be regarded and listed
as park equipment.

-SOURCE-
(Mar. 7, 1928, ch. 137, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 238.)

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-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 16 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 16. Central warehouses at parks and monuments; maintenance;
purchase of supplies and materials; distribution

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior, in his administration of the
national parks and national monuments, is authorized to maintain
central warehouses at said parks and monuments, and appropriations
made for the administration, protection, maintenance, and
improvement of the said parks and monuments shall be available for
the purchase of supplies and materials to be kept in said central
warehouses for distribution at cost, including transportation and
handling, to projects under specific appropriations, and transfers
between the various appropriations made for the national parks and
national monuments are authorized for the purpose of charging the
cost of supplies and materials, including transportation and
handling, drawn from central warehouses maintained under this
authority to the particular appropriation benefited; and such
supplies and materials as remain therein at the end of any fiscal
year shall be continuously available for issuance during subsequent
fiscal years and to be charged for by such transfers of funds
between appropriations made for the administration, protection,
maintenance, and improvement of said parks and monuments for the
fiscal year then current without decreasing in any way the
appropriations made for that fiscal year: Provided, That supplies
and materials shall not be purchased solely for the purpose of
increasing the value of storehouse stock beyond reasonable
requirements for any current fiscal year.

-SOURCE-
(Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 187, 46 Stat. 219.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of procurement of supplies, services, stores, etc.,
exercised by any other agency transferred to Procurement Division
in Department of the Treasury by Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, June
10, 1933, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees. Procurement Division changed
to Bureau of Federal Supply by Department of the Treasury Order 73
dated Nov. 19, 1946. Bureau transferred on July 1, 1949, to General
Services Administration, where it functions as Federal Supply
Service, pursuant to act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 102,
63 Stat. 380, which was repealed and reenacted as section 303(a) of
Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L.
107-217, Secs. 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062, 1304.

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-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17. Personal equipment and supplies for employees; purchase by
Secretary of the Interior; deductions from moneys due employees

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase personal
equipment and supplies for employees of the National Park Service,
and to make deductions therefor from moneys appropriated for salary
payments or otherwise due such employees.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 381.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

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16 USC Sec. 17a 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17a. Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80
Stat. 647

-MISC1-
Section, act May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 382,
provided for travel allowances and mileage for administration of
National Park Service.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17b 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17b. Services or other accommodations for public; contracts;
rates

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to contract for
services or other accommodations provided in the national parks and
national monuments for the public under contract with the
Department of the Interior, as may be required in the
administration of the National Park Service, at rates approved by
him for the furnishing of such services or accommodations to the
Government and without compliance with the provisions of section 5
of title 41.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 382.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1c of this title.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17b-1 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17b-1. Repealed. Pub. L. 105-391, title IV, Sec. 415(b)(3),
Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3516

-MISC1-
Section, acts July 31, 1953, ch. 298, title I, Sec. 1, 67 Stat.
271; July 14, 1956, ch. 598, 70 Stat. 543; Pub. L. 91-383, Sec.
12(c), as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 90 Stat.
1943, related to transmittal of reports of proposed contract and
lease awards to Congressional officers by Secretary.

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-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17c 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17c. Procurement of supplies, materials, and special services
to aid permittees and licensees in emergencies; authority of
Secretary of the Interior

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in emergencies, when
no other source is available for the immediate procurement of
supplies, materials, or special services, to aid and assist
grantees, permittees, or licensees conducting operations for the
benefit of the public in the national parks and national monuments
by the sale at cost, including transportation and handling of such
supplies, materials, or special services as may be necessary to
relieve the emergency and insure uninterrupted service to the
public: Provided, That the receipts from such sales shall be
deposited as a refund to the appropriation or appropriations
current at the date of covering in of such deposit, and shall be
available for expenditure for national-park and national-monument
purposes.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 382.)

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1c of this title.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17d 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17d. Omitted

-COD-
CODIFICATION
Section, act May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 5, 46 Stat. 382, which
provided that section 543 of former title 31 should not be
construed to prohibit the acceptance of traveler's checks and other
forms of money equivalent in payment of automobile license fees,
etc. charged at national parks, was omitted as obsolete in view of
the repeal of section 543 of former title 31 by Pub. L. 97-258,
Sec. 5(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1068.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17e 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17e. Care and removal of indigents; disposition of dead
persons

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion,
to provide, out of moneys appropriated for the general expenses of
the several national parks, for the temporary care and removal from
the park of indigents, and in case of death to provide for their
burial in those national parks not under local jurisdiction for
these purposes, this section in no case to authorize transportation
of such indigent or dead for a distance of more than fifty miles
from the national park.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 6, 46 Stat. 382.)

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1c of this title.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17f 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17f. Property of employee lost, damaged, or destroyed while in
use on official business; reimbursement of employee

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the
National Park Service is authorized to reimburse employees and
other owners of horses, vehicles, and other equipment lost,
damaged, or destroyed while in the custody of such employee or the
Department of the Interior, under authorization, contract, or loan,
for necessary fire fighting, trail, or other official business,
such reimbursement to be made from any available funds in the
appropriation to which the hire of such equipment would be properly
chargeable.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 7, 46 Stat. 382.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17g 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17g. Equipment required by field employees; by whom furnished
and maintained

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior may require field employees of the
National Park Service to furnish horses, motor and other vehicles,
and miscellaneous equipment necessary for the performance of their
official work; and he may provide, at Government expense, forage,
care, and housing for animals, and housing or storage and fuel for
vehicles and other equipment so required to be furnished.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 8, 46 Stat. 383.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17h 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17h. Hire, rental, and purchase of property of employees; when
authorized

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior may, under such regulations as he
may prescribe, authorize the hire, rental, or purchase of property
from employees of the National Park Service whenever the public
interest will be promoted thereby.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 9, 46 Stat. 383.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17i 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17i. Hire of work animals, vehicles and equipment with or
without personal services; rates

-STATUTE-
The National Park Service may hire, with or without personal
services, work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled
vehicles and equipment at rates to be approved by the Secretary of
the Interior and without compliance with the provisions of sections
5 and 16 of title 41.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 10, 46 Stat. 383.)

-REFTEXT-
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Section 16 of title 41, referred to in text, was repealed by act
Oct. 21, 1941, ch. 452, 55 Stat. 743.


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17j 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17j. Traveling expenses of National Park System employees and
dependents of deceased employees

-STATUTE-
In the administration of the National Park System, the Secretary
of the Interior is authorized, under regulations prescribed by him,
to pay (a) the traveling expenses of employees, including the costs
of packing, crating, and transporting (including draying) their
personal property, upon permanent change of station of such
employees and (b) the traveling expenses as aforesaid of dependents
of deceased employees (i) to the nearest housing reasonably
available and of a standard not less than that which is vacated,
and to include compensation for not to exceed sixty days rental
cost thereof, in the case of an employee who occupied Government
housing and the death of such employee requires that housing to be
promptly vacated, and (ii) to the nearest port of entry in the
conterminous forty-eight States in the case of an employee whose
last permanent station was outside the conterminous forty-eight
States.

-SOURCE-
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 11, 46 Stat. 383; Pub. L. 91-383, Sec.
5, Aug. 18, 1970, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 90
Stat. 1939.)


-MISC1-
AMENDMENTS
1976 - Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 5, as added by Pub. L. 94-458,
included travel expenses for dependents of a deceased National Park
System employee.


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17j-1 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17j-1. Omitted

-COD-
CODIFICATION
Section, act June 18, 1940, ch. 395, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 445, which
related to travel expenses for attendance of National Park Service
field employees at authorized meetings, was enacted as part of the
Interior Department Appropriations Act, 1941, and was not repeated
in the Interior Department Appropriations Act, 1942 (approved June
28, 1941, ch. 259, 55 Stat. 303), or subsequent appropriation acts.
Similar provisions were contained in prior appropriation acts.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17j-2 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17j-2. Authorization of appropriations for road maintenance
and repair; administrative expenses; lectures, investigations,
telephone service, etc.

-STATUTE-
Appropriations for the National Park Service are authorized for -

(a) Necessary protection of the area of federally owned land in
the custody of the National Park Service known as the Ocean Strip
and Queets Corridor, adjacent to Olympic National Park, Washington;
necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through
the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the various points in the
boundary line of Glacier National Park, Montana, and the
international boundary; repair and maintenance of approximately two
and seventy-seven one-hundredths miles of road leading from United
States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National
Park, Wyoming; maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen
National Forest leading to Lassen Volcanic National Park,
California; maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between
the boundaries of Sequoia National Park, California, and the Grant
Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, California;
maintenance of approximately two and one-fourth miles of roads
comprising those portions of the Fresno-Kings Canyon approach road,
Park Ridge Lookout Road, and Ash Mountain-Advance truck trail,
necessary to the administration and protection of the Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks; maintenance of the roads in the
national forests leading out of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming,
Idaho, and Montana; maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus
National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy
Road near Mather Station, Yosemite National Park, California; and
maintenance and repair of the approach road to the Little Bighorn
Battlefield National Monument and the road connecting the said
monument with the Reno Monument site, Montana; repair and
maintenance of the class "C" road lying between the terminus of
F.A. 383 at the east boundary of Coronado National Forest and the
point where said class "C" road enters Coronado National Memorial
in the vicinity of Montezuma Pass, approximately 5.3 miles.
(b) Administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of
areas, under the jurisdiction of other agencies of the Government,
devoted to recreational use pursuant to cooperative agreements.
(c) Necessary local transportation and subsistence in kind of
persons selected for employment or as cooperators, serving without
other compensation, while attending fire-protection training camps.
(d) Administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
(e) Educational lectures in or in the vicinity of and with
respect to the national parks, national monuments, and other
reservations under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service;
and services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit
scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in
the various parks and monuments as the Secretary of the Interior
may designate.
(f) Travel expenses of employees attending Government camps for
training in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation National Police Academy, and attending
Federal, State, or municipal schools for training in building fire
prevention and suppression.
(g) Investigation and establishment of water rights in accordance
with local custom, laws, and decisions of courts, including the
acquisition of water rights or of lands or interests in lands or
rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or
beneficial in the administration and public use of the national
parks and monuments.
(h) Acquisition of rights-of-way and construction and maintenance
of a water supply line partly outside the boundaries of Mesa Verde
National Park.
(i) Official telephone service in the field in the case of
official telephones installed in private houses when authorized
under regulations established by the Secretary.
(j) Provide transportation for children in nearby communities to
and from any unit of the National Park System used in connection
with organized recreation and interpretive programs of the National
Park Service.

-SOURCE-
(Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 788, 60 Stat. 885; Pub. L. 86-689, Sec. 3, Sept.
2, 1960, 74 Stat. 737; Pub. L. 102-201, title I, Sec. 101, Dec. 10,
1991, 105 Stat. 1631; Pub. L. 104-333, div. I, title VIII, Sec.
802, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4186.)


-MISC1-
AMENDMENTS
1996 - Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 104-333 added subsec. (j).
1960 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-689 authorized appropriations for
the repair and maintenance of the class "C" road lying between the
terminus of F.A. 383 at the east boundary of Coronado National
Forest and the point where said class "C" road enters Coronado
National Memorial in the vicinity of Montezuma Pass.

-CHANGE-
CHANGE OF NAME
"Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument" substituted in
text for "Custer Battlefield National Monument" pursuant to Pub. L.
102-201.


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 460eee-1, 460fff-1 of
this title.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17k 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17k. Park, parkway and recreational-area programs; study by
National Park Service; consent of States; purpose; cooperation of
government agencies

-STATUTE-
The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the
"Secretary") is authorized and directed to cause the National Park
Service to make a comprehensive study, other than on lands under
the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, of the public
park, parkway, and recreational-area programs of the United States,
and of the several States and political subdivisions thereof, and
of the lands throughout the United States which are or may be
chiefly valuable as such areas, but no such study shall be made in
any State without the consent and approval of the State officials,
boards, or departments having jurisdiction over such lands and park
areas. The said study shall be such as, in the judgment of the
Secretary, will provide data helpful in developing a plan for
coordinated and adequate public park, parkway, and
recreational-area facilities for the people of the United States.
In making the said study and in accomplishing any of the purposes
of this section and sections 17l to 17n of this title, the
Secretary is authorized and directed, through the National Park
Service, to seek and accept the cooperation and assistance of
Federal departments or agencies having jurisdiction of lands
belonging to the United States, and may cooperate and make
agreements with and seek and accept the assistance of other Federal
agencies and instrumentalities, and of States and political
subdivisions thereof and the agencies and instrumentalities of
either of them.

-SOURCE-
(June 23, 1936, ch. 735, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1894.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.


-MISC1-
NATIONAL OUTDOOR RECREATION RESOURCES REVIEW COMMISSION
Pub. L. 85-470, June 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 238, as amended by Pub.
L. 86-6, Mar. 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 14; Pub. L. 87-12, Mar. 29, 1961,
75 Stat. 19, created a bipartisan Outdoor Recreation Resources
Review Commission.
The Commission was directed to proceed as soon as practicable to
set in motion a nationwide inventory and evaluation of outdoor
recreation resources and opportunities, directly and through the
Federal agencies, the States, and private organizations and groups,
utilizing to the fullest extent possible such studies, data, and
reports previously prepared or concurrently in process by Federal
agencies, States, private organizations, groups, and others, and to
compile such data and in the light of the data so compiled and of
information available concerning trends in population, leisure,
transportation, and other factors shall determine the amount, kind,
quality, and location of such outdoor recreation resources and
opportunities as will be required by the year 1976 and the year
2000, and shall recommend what policies should best be adopted and
what programs be initiated, at each level of government and by
private organizations and other citizen groups and interests, to
meet such future requirements.
The Commission was required to present not later than January 31,
1962, a report of its review, a compilation of its data, and its
recommendations on a State by State, region by region, and national
basis to the President and to the Congress, and ceased to exist not
later than September 1, 1962.

OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAMS
Coordination and development of programs relating to outdoor
recreation, see sections 460l to 460l-3 of this title.

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 17n of this title.

-End-



-CITE-
16 USC Sec. 17l 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17l. Coordination; planning by States with aid of National
Park Service

-STATUTE-
For the purpose of developing coordinated and adequate public
park, parkway, and recreational-area facilities for the people of
the United States, the Secretary is authorized to aid the several
States and political subdivisions thereof in planning such areas
therein, and in cooperating with one another to accomplish these
ends. Such aid shall be made available through the National Park
Service acting in cooperation with such State agencies or agencies
of political subdivisions of States as the Secretary deems best.

-SOURCE-
(June 23, 1936, ch. 735, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1894.)


-TRANS-
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.

-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 17k, 17n of this title.

-End-



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16 USC Sec. 17m 01/19/04

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

-HEAD-
Sec. 17m. Consent of Congress to agreements between States; when
agreements effective

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The consent of Congress is given to any two or more States to
negotiate and enter into compacts or agreements with one another
with reference to planning, establishing, developing, improving,
and maintaining any park, parkway, or recreational area. No such
compact or agreement shall be effective until approved by the
legislatures of the several States which are parties thereto and by
the Congress of the United States.

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(June 23, 1936, ch. 735, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 1895.)

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SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 17k of this title.

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16 USC Sec. 17n 01/19/04

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TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

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Sec. 17n. "State" defined

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As used in sections 17k and 17l of this title the term "State"
shall be deemed to include Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the
Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia.

-SOURCE-
(June 23, 1936, ch. 735, Sec. 4, 49 Stat. 1895; Aug. 1, 1956, ch.
852, Sec. 6, 70 Stat. 908.)


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AMENDMENTS
1956 - Act Aug. 1, 1956, inserted "Guam" after "Puerto Rico".

ADMISSION OF ALASKA AND HAWAII TO STATEHOOD
Alaska was admitted into the Union on Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance
of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, and
Hawaii was admitted into the Union on Aug. 21, 1959, on issuance of
Proc. No. 3309, Aug. 21, 1959, 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74. For
Alaska Statehood Law, see Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat.
339, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions. For Hawaii Statehood Law, see
Pub. L. 86-3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 4, set out as a note
preceding section 491 of Title 48.

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SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 17k of this title.

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16 USC Sec. 17o 01/19/04

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TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

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Sec. 17o. National Park Service housing improvement

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(1) Purposes
The purposes of this section are -
(A) to develop where necessary an adequate supply of quality
housing units for field employees of the National Park Service
within a reasonable time frame;
(B) to expand the alternatives available for construction and
repair of essential Government housing;
(C) to rely on the private sector to finance or supply housing
in carrying out this section, to the maximum extent possible, in
order to reduce the need for Federal appropriations;
(D) to ensure that adequate funds are available to provide for
long-term maintenance needs of field employee housing; and
(E) to eliminate unnecessary Government housing and locate such
housing as is required in a manner such that primary resource
values are not impaired.
(2) General authority
To enhance the ability of the Secretary of the Interior
(hereafter in this section referred to as "the Secretary"), acting
through the Director of the National Park Service, to effectively
manage units of the National Park System, the Secretary is
authorized where necessary and justified to make available employee
housing, on or off the lands under the administrative jurisdiction
of the National Park Service, and to rent or lease such housing to
field employees of the National Park Service at rates based on the
reasonable value of the housing in accordance with requirements
applicable under section 5911 of title 5.
(3) Review and revision of housing criteria
On November 12, 1996, the Secretary shall review and revise the
existing criteria under which housing is provided to employees of
the National Park Service. Specifically, the Secretary shall
examine the existing criteria with respect to what circumstances
the National Park Service requires an employee to occupy Government
quarters to provide necessary services, protect Government
property, or because of a lack of availability of non-Federal
housing in the geographic area.
(4) Submission of report
A report detailing the results of the revisions required by
paragraph (3) shall be submitted to the Committee on Resources of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources of the Senate not later than 180 days after
November 12, 1996. The report shall include justifications for
keeping, or for changing, each of the criteria or factors used by
the Department of the Interior with regard to the provision of
housing to employees of the National Park Service.
(5) Review of condition of and costs relating to housing
Using the revised criteria developed under paragraph (3), the
Secretary shall undertake a review, for each unit of the National
Park System, of existing government-owned (!1) housing provided to
employees of the National Park Service. The review shall include an
assessment of the physical condition of such housing and the
suitability of such housing to effectively carry out the missions
of the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service.
For each unit of such housing, the Secretary shall determine
whether the unit is needed and justified. The review shall include
estimates of the cost of bringing each unit that is needed and
justified into usable condition that meets all applicable legal
housing requirements or, if the unit is determined to be obsolete
but is still warranted to carry out the missions of the Department
of the Interior and the National Park Service, the cost of
replacing the unit.

(6) Authorization for housing agreements
For those units of the National Park System for which the review
required by paragraphs (3) and (5) has been completed, the
Secretary is authorized, pursuant to the authorities contained in
this section and subject to the appropriation of necessary funds in
advance, to enter into housing agreements with housing entities
under which such housing entities may develop, construct,
rehabilitate, or manage housing, located on or off public lands,
for rent or lease to National Park Service employees who meet the
housing eligibility criteria developed by the Secretary pursuant to
this section.
(7) Joint public-private sector housing programs
(A) Lease to build program
Subject to the appropriation of necessary funds in advance, the
Secretary may -
(i) lease Federal land and interests in land to qualified
persons for the construction of field employee quarters for any
period not to exceed 50 years; and
(ii) lease developed and undeveloped non-Federal land for
providing field employee quarters.
(B) Competitive leasing
Each lease under subparagraph (A)(i) shall be awarded through
the use of publicly advertised, competitively bid, or
competitively negotiated contracting procedures.
(C) Terms and conditions
Each lease under subparagraph (A)(i) -
(i) shall stipulate whether operation and maintenance of
field employee quarters is to be provided by the lessee, field
employees or the Federal Government;
(ii) shall require that the construction and rehabilitation
of field employee quarters be done in accordance with the
requirements of the National Park Service and local applicable
building codes and industry standards;
(iii) shall contain such additional terms and conditions as
may be appropriate to protect the Federal interest, including
limits on rents the lessee may charge field employees for the
occupancy of quarters, conditions on maintenance and repairs,
and agreements on the provision of charges for utilities and
other infrastructure; and
(iv) may be granted at less than fair market value if the
Secretary determines that such lease will improve the quality
and availability of field employee quarters available.
(D) Contributions by United States
The Secretary may make payments, subject to appropriations, or
contributions in kind either in advance of or on a continuing
basis to reduce the costs of planning, construction, or
rehabilitation of quarters on or off Federal lands under a lease
under this paragraph.
(8) Rental guarantee program
(A) General authority
Subject to the appropriation of necessary funds in advance, the
Secretary may enter into a lease to build arrangement as set
forth in paragraph (7) with further agreement to guarantee the
occupancy of field employee quarters constructed or rehabilitated
under such lease. A guarantee made under this paragraph shall be
in writing.
(B) Limitations
The Secretary may not guarantee -
(i) the occupancy of more than 75 percent of the units
constructed or rehabilitated under such lease; and
(ii) at a rental rate that exceeds the rate based on the
reasonable value of the housing in accordance with requirements
applicable under section 5911 of title 5.

In no event shall outstanding guarantees be in excess of
$3,000,000,(!2)

(C) Rental to Government employees
A guarantee may be made under this section only if the lessee
agrees to permit the Secretary to utilize for housing purposes
any units for which the guarantee is made (!3)

(D) Failure to maintain a satisfactory level of operation and
maintenance
The lease shall be null and void if the lessee fails to
maintain a satisfactory level of operation and maintenance.
(9) Joint development authority
The Secretary may use authorities granted by statute in
combination with one another in the furtherance of providing where
necessary and justified affordable field employee housing.
(10) Contracts for the management of field employee quarters
(A) General authority
Subject to the appropriation of necessary funds in advance, the
Secretary may enter into contracts of any duration for the
management, repair, and maintenance of field employee quarters.
(B) Terms and conditions
Any such contract shall contain such terms and conditions as
the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate to protect the
interests of the United States and assure that necessary quarters
are available to field employees.
(11) Leasing of seasonal employee quarters
(A) General authority
Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary may lease quarters
at or near a unit of the national park system for use as seasonal
quarters for field employees. The rent charged to field employees
under such a lease shall be a rate based on the reasonable value
of the quarters in accordance with requirements applicable under
section 5911 of title 5.
(B) Limitation
The Secretary may only issue a lease under subparagraph (A) if
the Secretary finds that there is a shortage of adequate and
affordable seasonal quarters at or near such unit and that -
(i) the requirement for such seasonal field employee quarters
is temporary; or
(ii) leasing would be more cost-effective than construction
of new seasonal field employee quarters.
(C) Unrecovered costs
The Secretary may pay the unrecovered costs of leasing seasonal
quarters under this paragraph from annual appropriations for the
year in which such lease is made.
(12) Survey of existing facilities
The Secretary shall -
(A) complete a condition assessment for all field employee
housing, including the physical condition of such housing and the
necessity and suitability of such housing for carrying out the
agency mission, using existing information; and
(B) develop an agency-wide priority listing, by structure,
identifying those units in greatest need for repair,
rehabilitation, replacement, or initial construction.
(13) Use of housing-related funds
Expenditure of any funds authorized and appropriated for new
construction, repair, or rehabilitation of housing under this
section shall follow the housing priority listing established by
the agency under paragraph (12), in sequential order, to the
maximum extent practicable.
(14) Annual budget submittal
The President's proposed budget to Congress for the first fiscal
year beginning after November 12, 1996, and for each subsequent
fiscal year, shall include identification of nonconstruction funds
to be spent for National Park Service housing maintenance and
operations which are in addition to rental receipts collected.
(15) Study of housing allowances
Within 12 months after November 12, 1996, the Secretary shall
conduct a study to determine the feasibility of providing eligible
employees of the National Park Service with housing allowances
rather than Government housing. The study shall specifically
examine the feasibility of providing rental allowances to temporary
and lower paid permanent employees. Whenever the Secretary submits
a copy of such study to the Office of Management and Budget, he
shall concurrently transmit copies of the report to the Resources
Committee of the United States House of Representatives and the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States
Senate.
(16) Study of sale of employee housing
Within 18 months of November 12, 1996, the Secretary shall
complete a study of the sale of Government quarters to a
cooperative consisting of field employees. The Secretary shall
examine the potential benefits to the Government as well as the
employees and any risks associated with such a program.
(17) General provisions
(A) Construction limitations on Federal lands
The Secretary may not utilize any lands for the purposes of
providing field employee housing under this section which will
impact primary resource values of the area or adversely affect
the mission of the agency.
(B) Rental rates
To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall establish rental
rates for all quarters occupied by field employees of the
National Park Service that are based on the reasonable value of
the quarters in accordance with requirements applicable under
section 5911 of title 5.
(C) Exemption from leasing requirements
The provisions of section 460l-22 of this title and section
1302 of title 40 shall not apply to leases issued by the
Secretary under this section.
(18) Proceeds
The proceeds from any lease under paragraph (7)(A) and any lease
under paragraph (11) shall be retained by the National Park
Service. Such proceeds shall be deposited into the special fund
established for maintenance and operation of quarters.
(19) Definitions
For purposes of this section:
(A) The term "field employee" means -
(i) an employee of the National Park Service who is
exclusively assigned by the National Park Service to perform
duties at a field unit, and the members of their family; and
(ii) other individuals who are authorized to occupy
Government quarters under section 5911 of title 5, and for whom
there is no feasible alternative to the provision of Government
housing, and the members of their family.

(B) The term "land management agency" means the National Park
Service, Department of the Interior.
(C) The term "primary resource values" means resources which
are specifically mentioned in the enabling legislation for that
field unit or other resource value recognized under Federal
statute.
(D) The term "quarters" means quarters owned or leased by the
Government.
(E) The term "seasonal quarters" means quarters typically
occupied by field employees who are hired on assignments of 6
months or less.

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(Pub. L. 104-333, div. I, title VIII, Sec. 814(a), Nov. 12, 1996,
110 Stat. 4190; Pub. L. 106-176, title I, Sec. 120(a)(1), Mar. 10,
2000, 114 Stat. 28.)

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REFERENCES IN TEXT
This section, referred to in pars. (1), (6), (13), and (17)(A),
(C), means section 814 of title VIII of div. I of Pub. L. 104-333
which enacted this section and sections 1f and 346e of this title
and made numerous amendments to this title. The reference probably
should have been "this subsection" meaning subsec. (a) of section
814 which enacted this section.-COD- (continued)