§ 797a. — Congressional authorization for permits, licenses, leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc., within national parks or monuments.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC797a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
SUBCHAPTER I--REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
Sec. 797a. Congressional authorization for permits, licenses,
leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc.,
within national parks or monuments
On and after March 3, 1921, no permit, license, lease, or
authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission
lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the
development, transmission, or utilization of power within the limits as
constituted, March 3, 1921, of any national park or national monument
shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress.
(Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 129, 41 Stat. 1353.)
Codification
Provisions repealing so much of this chapter ``as authorizes
licensing such uses of existing national parks and national monuments by
the Federal Power Commission'' have been omitted.
Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Power Act which
generally comprises this chapter.
Section 212 of act Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, 49 Stat. 847,
provided that nothing in this chapter, as amended should be construed to
repeal or amend the provisions of the act approved Mar. 3, 1921 (41
Stat. 1353) [16 U.S.C. 797a] or the provisions of any other Act relating
to national parks and national monuments.
