§ 450jj-1. — Construction of memorial.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC450jj-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
Sec. 450jj-1. Construction of memorial
(a) Plan; contracts; employment and compensation of personnel
The memorial authorized herein shall be constructed in general, in
accordance with the plan approved by the United States Territorial
Expansion Memorial Commission on May 25, 1948. The Secretary of the
Interior is authorized to enter into such contracts as may be necessary
to carry out the purposes of sections 450jj to 450jj-9 of this title.
The Secretary is also authorized to employ, in his discretion, by
contract or otherwise, landscape architects, architects, engineers,
sculptors, artists, other expert consultants, or firms, partnerships, or
associations thereof, and to include in any such contract provision for
the utilization of the services and facilities, and the payment of the
travel and other expenses, of their respective organizations, in
accordance with the usual customs of the several professions and at the
prevailing rates for such services and facilities, without regard to the
civil-service laws or regulations, chapter 51 and subchapter III of
chapter 53 of title 5, section 5 of title 41, or any other law or
regulation relating to either employment or compensation.
(b) Easements; above-ground parking
The Secretary of the Interior, in connection with the construction
and operation of the memorial, is authorized to grant such easements as
are in the public interest, and, in his discretion, to convey to the
city of Saint Louis for above-ground parking structures, under such
terms and conditions as he may consider to be compatible with
maintaining the integrity, appearance, and purposes of said memorial,
such portion of the historic site as may in his judgment be excluded
therefrom without detriment thereto, subject, however, to reversion of
such portion of the historic site to the United States if such excluded
area ceases to be used for parking purposes by said city.
(c) Easements; public protection
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant easements for
the purpose of erecting under-ground structures suitable for public
protection under such terms and conditions as he may consider to be
compatible with maintaining the integrity, appearance, and purposes of
said memorial.
(May 17, 1954, ch. 204, Sec. 2, 68 Stat. 99.)
References in Text
Herein, referred to in subsec. (a), means act May 17, 1954, which is
generally classified to sections 450jj to 450jj-9 of this title. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
The civil-service laws, referred to in subsec. (a), are set forth in
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly,
section 3301 et seq. of Title 5.
Codification
In subsec. (a), ``chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of
title 5'' substituted for ``the Classification Act of 1949, as amended''
on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631,
the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees.
