§ 17j-2. — Authorization of appropriations for road maintenance and repair; administrative expenses; lectures, investigations, telephone service, etc.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC17j-2]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Sec. 17j-2. Authorization of appropriations for road maintenance
and repair; administrative expenses; lectures, investigations,
telephone service, etc.
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.
(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.)
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 of Name
``Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument'' substituted in text
for ``Custer Battlefield National Monument'' pursuant to Pub. L. 102-
201.
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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 460eee-1, 460fff-1 of this
title.
