§ 19jj-3. — Use of recovered amounts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC19jj-3]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER III-B--PARK SYSTEM RESOURCE PROTECTION
Sec. 19jj-3. Use of recovered amounts
Response costs and damages recovered by the Secretary under the
provisions of this subchapter or amounts recovered by the Federal
Government under any Federal, State, or local law or regulation or
otherwise as a result of damage to any living or nonliving resource
located within a unit of the National Park System, except for damage to
resources owned by a non-Federal entity, shall be available to the
Secretary and without further congressional action may be used only as
follows:
(a) Response costs and damage assessments
To reimburse response costs and damage assessments by the
Secretary or other Federal agencies as the Secretary deems
appropriate.
(b) Restoration and replacement
To restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of resources
which were the subject of the action and to monitor and study such
resources: Provided, That no such funds may be used to acquire any
lands or waters or interests therein or rights thereto unless such
acquisition is specifically approved in advance in appropriations
Acts and any such acquisition shall be subject to any limitations
contained in the organic legislation for such park unit.
(c) Excess funds
Any amounts remaining after expenditures pursuant to subsections
(a) and (b) of this section shall be deposited into the General Fund
of the United States Treasury.
(Pub. L. 101-337, Sec. 4, July 27, 1990, 104 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 103-437,
Sec. 6(d)(3), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583.)
Codification
Subsection (d), which required the Secretary to report annually to
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Natural Resources of the United
States House of Representatives on funds expended pursuant to this
subchapter, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003
of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of
Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 111 of House Document No.
103-7.
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources''
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
