§ 410ii-6. — Research and data gathering.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC410ii-6]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LIX-G--CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 410ii-6. Research and data gathering
(a) Plan for continued operational program; submittal to Congress
Consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of the Division
of Cultural Research of the Southwest Cultural Resources Center,
operated by the National Park Service, the Secretary shall continue such
research and data gathering activities as may be appropriate to further
the purposes of this subchapter and knowledge of the Chaco culture. The
Secretary shall submit in writing within six months of the effective
date of this section, to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, a plan for the
continued operational program of the Division. The Secretary is
authorized and encouraged to establish a committee composed of
professional archeologists and others with related professional
expertise including the designee of the Governor of the State of New
Mexico to advise the Secretary in matters related to the surveying,
excavation, curation, interpretation, protection, and management of the
cultural resources of the historical park and archeological protection
sites.
(b) Computer-generated data base; furnishing of information to Federal
and private groups
The Secretary shall, through the Division of Cultural Research of
the Southwest Cultural Resources Center of the National Park Service, be
responsible for the development of a computer-generated data base of the
San Juan Basin, and make such information available to Federal and
private groups when to do so will assist such groups in the
preservation, management, and development of the resources of the basin.
(c) Opportunity for Secretary to comment on proposed expenditures and
permits
The head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect
jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking
with respect to the lands and waters in the archeological protection
sites, and the head of any Federal agency having authority to license or
permit any undertaking with respect to such lands and waters, shall
prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds on such
undertaking, or prior to the issuance of any license or permit, as the
case may be, afford the Secretary a reasonable opportunity to comment in
writing with regard to such undertaking and its effect upon such sites,
and shall give due consideration to any comments made by the Secretary
and to the effect of such undertaking on the purposes for which such
sites are established.
(Pub. L. 96-550, title V, Sec. 507, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3230.)
References in Text
The effective date of this section, referred to in subsec. (a),
probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 96-550, which was
approved Dec. 19, 1980.
Change of Name
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
