16 U.S.C. § 430g–7 — Conservation within Gettysburg Battlefield historic district

(a) Encouragement of conservation. The Secretary must take appropriate steps to encourage landowners, local governments, organizations, and businesses to conserve the historic district. (b) Prioritization of grants. Within the historic district, when the Secretary makes grants under certain sections of title 54 (302902(a), 302903(a), and 302904 through 302908), or gives technical assistance, information, and advice under section 303902 of title 54, the Secretary must give priority to programs and activities that will develop and use natural and cultural resources in ways consistent with conserving the district's historic character. (c) Provision of technical assistance. The Secretary may give technical assistance to help local governments cooperate in ways that support the park's and historic district's values, and to help landowners create individual property plans that meet both their own goals and conservation goals within the historic district. (d) Reimbursement of planning costs. If a local or county government in the historic district asks, the Secretary must, under terms the Secretary sets, reimburse up to 50 percent of that government's planning costs for creating comprehensive plans and land-use guidelines that fit with conserving the district's historic character. But these reimbursements are only available to the extent Congress provides money for them in appropriations acts. (e) Acceptance of easement donations. On the recommendation of the Director of the National Park Service, and after consulting the Advisory Commission set up under section 430g–8, the Secretary may accept donated conservation easements on land inside the historic district. (f) Federal consistency. (1) Any federal or federally-assisted project in the historic district must, as much as possible, fit with preserving the district's historic character — including its rural, agricultural, and town elements — and must also follow the National Historic Preservation Act and other applicable laws. (2) The head of any federal agency with authority over a proposed federal or federally-assisted project in the district, or with power to license or permit a project there, must prepare a detailed analysis of the proposed action as early as possible and send it to the Secretary. (3) The Secretary must review that analysis and consult with the agency. If, after that review, the Secretary decides the proposed action doesn't fit the purposes described in this subsection, the agency cannot proceed until it sends a justification to the right congressional committees, with enough time for Congress to comment. That justification must cover: the expected effect on the historic district's historic and commemorative character, the social and economic need for the action, all possible alternatives, the comparative benefits of those alternatives, and how the proposed action would reduce harm.