54 U.S.C. § 305103 — Selection of eligible entity and conveyance of historic light stations

(a) Process and Policies. The Secretary^* and the Administrator^* must keep a process for finding and choosing an eligible entity^* to receive a historic light station^*. The entity can use it for education, park, recreation, cultural, or historic preservation^* purposes. The Secretary and Administrator also watch how the entity uses it afterward.

(b) Application Review. (1) In general. The Secretary reviews all applications to receive a light station, but only after the agency^* that controls it has declared it "excess property" under section 102 of title 40. The Secretary then sends the Administrator one approved application. (2) Consultation. Before choosing an entity, the Secretary must consult the State^* Historic Preservation^* Officer of the state where the light station sits.

(c) Conveyance or Sale of Historic Light Stations. (1) Conveyance by administrator. Once the Secretary picks an entity, the Administrator gives the United States' full ownership of the light station to that entity by quitclaim deed, for free, subject to the conditions in section 305104. Except for the case in paragraph (2) below, this transfer is not covered by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act or by section 416(d) of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1998.

(2) Historic light station in a park unit or wildlife refuge. (A) Approval required. If a light station sits inside a National Park System^* unit or a National Wildlife Refuge, it can only be given away or sold with the Secretary's approval. (B) Conditions of conveyance. If the Secretary approves giving it away, the transfer must follow the conditions in section 305104, plus any other conditions the Secretary thinks are needed to protect the park or refuge. (C) Conditions of sale. If the Secretary approves selling it, the sale must follow certain listed conditions from section 305104 — paragraphs (1) through (4) and (8) of subsection (a), and all of subsection (b) — plus any other terms the Secretary thinks are needed to protect the park or refuge. (D) Cooperative agreements. The Secretary is encouraged to make cooperative agreements with eligible entities for these light stations, as long as the agreements fit with the Secretary's duty to manage the park unit or refuge.