§ 410z-1. — Acquisition of additional sites.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC410z-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LVII--BOSTON NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 410z-1. Acquisition of additional sites
(a) Studies
In addition to the properties described in section 410z of this
title, the Secretary shall study the properties described in this
section to determine the feasibility and suitability of including them
within the Boston National Historical Park. In making such studies, he
may enter into tentative agreements with any owners thereof for their
inclusion in said park and he may enter into options, for a nominal
consideration, for the purchase of such properties, but no additional
properties may be added to the park except by an act of the Congress.
Studies shall be made of the following properties:
(1) Boston Common;
(2) Dillaway-Thomas House;
(3) Thomas Crease House (old Corner Book Store); and
(4) the following burying grounds: King's Chapel, Granary, and
Copp's Hill.
(b) Cooperative agreements authorized
(1) In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as
prescribed in section 410z of this title, the Secretary is authorized to
enter into cooperative agreements with the city of Boston, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or any private organization to mark,
interpret, restore, and/or provide technical assistance for the
preservation and interpretation of any properties listed in section 410z
of this title, or portions thereof, which, in his opinion, would best be
preserved in private, municipal, or State ownership, in connection with
the Boston National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain, but
shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary, through the
National Park Service, shall have right of access at all reasonable
times to all public portions of the property covered by such agreement
for the purpose of conducting visitors through such properties and
interpreting them to the public, that no changes or alterations shall be
made in such properties except by mutual agreement between the Secretary
and the other parties to such agreements, except that no limitation or
control of any kind over the use of any such properties customarily used
for church purposes shall be imposed by any agreement. The agreements
may contain specific provisions which outline in detail the extent of
the participation by the Secretary in the restoration, preservation, and
maintenance of such historic properties.
(2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into a
cooperative agreement with the Boston Public Library to provide for the
distribution of informational and interpretive materials relating to the
park and to the Freedom Trail.
(c) Identification and marking of significant historical sites
The Secretary may identify other significant sites of the colonial
and Revolutionary periods of American history in the city of Boston,
Massachusetts, and its environs, which are related to the historical
park created by this subchapter, and, with the consent of the owner or
owners thereof, may mark them appropriately and make reference to them
in any interpretive literature.
(Pub. L. 93-431, Sec. 3, Oct. 1, 1974, 88 Stat. 1185; Pub. L. 95-625,
title III, Sec. 310(b), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3478; Pub. L. 104-333,
div. I, title V, Sec. 504, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4155.)
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-333 designated existing provisions as
par. (1) and added par. (2).
1978--Subsec. (a)(4), (5). Pub. L. 95-625 struck out par. ``(4)
Dorchester Heights; and'' and redesignated par. (5) as (4).
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 410z-2 of this title.
