§ 410y-1. — Purposes; establishment; boundaries; acquisition of lands; procedure for acquisition; time of acquisition.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC410y-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LVI--CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 410y-1. Purposes; establishment; boundaries; acquisition of
lands; procedure for acquisition; time of acquisition
(a) In order to preserve and interpret the historic and scenic
features of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and to develop the potential
of the canal for public recreation, including such restoration as may be
needed, there is hereby established the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Historical Park, in the States of Maryland and West Virginia
and in the District of Columbia. The park as initially established shall
comprise those particular properties in Federal ownership, containing
approximately five thousand two hundred and fifty acres, including those
properties along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the State
of Maryland and appurtenances in the State of West Virginia designated
as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument, and those properties
along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Rock Creek in
the District of Columbia and the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal National Monument near the mouth of Seneca Creek in the State of
Maryland. The boundaries of the park shall be as generally depicted on
the drawing entitled ``Boundary Map, Proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Historical Park,'' in five sheets, numbered CHOH 91,000, and
dated October 1969, which is on file and available for public inspection
in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior:
Provided, That no lands owned by any State shall be included in the
boundaries of the park--
(1) unless they are donated to the United States, or
(2) until a written cooperative agreement is negotiated by the
Secretary which assures the administration of such lands in
accordance with established administrative policies for national
parks, and
(3) until the terms and conditions of such donation or
cooperative agreement have been forwarded to the Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural
Resources of the House of Representatives at least sixty days prior
to being executed.
The exact boundaries of the park shall be established, published, and
otherwise publicized within eighteen months after January 8, 1971, and
the owners of property other than property lying between the canal and
the Potomac River shall be notified within said period as to the extent
of their property included in the park.
(b) Within the boundaries of the park, the Secretary is authorized
to acquire lands and interests therein by donation, purchase with
donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, but he shall refrain from
acquiring, for two years from January 8, 1971, any lands designated on
the boundary map for acquisition by any State if he has negotiated and
consummated a written cooperative agreement with such State pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section.
(Pub. L. 91-664, Sec. 3, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1978; Pub. L. 103-437,
Sec. 6(g), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural
Resources of the House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on Interior
and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and
Senate''.
Change of Name
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.
