§ 16. — Central warehouses at parks and monuments; maintenance; purchase of supplies and materials; distribution.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC16]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Sec. 16. Central warehouses at parks and monuments; maintenance;
purchase of supplies and materials; distribution
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.
(Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 187, 46 Stat. 219.)
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.
