54 U.S.C. § 100504 — Study and planning of park, parkway, and recreational-area facilities
submitted 12 years ago by Pub. L. 113-287 to r/title-54-NATIONAL-PARK-SERVICE-AND-RELATED-PROGRAMS · 395 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must study public park, parkway, and recreation programs across the country, but only in a state with that state's consent. The study aims to help plan good park facilities nationwide, and the Secretary can help states plan and cooperate with each other. Congress also approves states making agreements with each other about parks, parkways, and recreation areas, once their legislatures and Congress approve.
(a) In General.
(1) Definition. In this subsection, "State" means a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
(2) Study. The Secretary* must have the Service* do a full study of public park, parkway, and recreation-area programs run by the United States, the states, and local governments. This does not cover land controlled by the Secretary of Agriculture. The study also covers land around the country that already is, or could become, valuable as park, parkway, or recreation land. The Service cannot study land in any state without that state's officials, boards, or departments agreeing to it. The goal of the study is to gather data that helps build a coordinated, adequate system* of park, parkway, and recreation facilities for the country.
(3) Cooperation and agreements with other entities. While doing the study, and to meet this section's goals, the Secretary, acting through the Director*:
(A) must seek and accept help from federal departments or agencies that control land belonging to the United States; and
(B) may cooperate and make agreements with, and seek and accept help from, (i) other federal agencies, and (ii) states and local governments and their agencies.
(4) State planning. To help build a coordinated, adequate system of park, parkway, and recreation facilities, the Secretary may help states and local governments plan these areas and cooperate with each other. This help comes through the Service, working with whichever state or local agencies the Secretary thinks are best suited.
(b) Consent of Congress to Agreements Between States. Congress gives its consent for two or more states to negotiate and enter into compacts or agreements with each other about planning, creating, developing, improving, and maintaining any park, parkway, or recreation area. Such a compact or agreement does not take effect until the legislatures of every state involved approve it, and Congress approves it too.
In this subsection, the term “State” means a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
The Secretary* shall cause the Service* to make a comprehensive study, other than on land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, of the public park, parkway, and recreational area programs of the United States, States, and political subdivisions of States and of areas of land throughout the United States that are or may be chiefly valuable as public park, parkway, or recreational areas. A study shall not be made in any State without the consent and approval of the State officials, boards, or departments having jurisdiction over the land. The study shall be such as, in the judgment of the Secretary, will provide data helpful in developing a plan for coordinated and adequate public park, parkway, and recreational-area facilities for the people of the United States.
In making the study and to accomplish the purposes of this section, the Secretary, acting through the Director*—
shall seek and accept the cooperation and assistance of Federal departments or agencies having jurisdiction of land belonging to the United States; and
may cooperate and make agreements with and seek and accept the assistance of—
other Federal agencies and instrumentalities; and
States, political subdivisions of States, and agencies and instrumentalities of either of them.
For the purpose of developing coordinated and adequate public park, parkway, and recreational-area facilities for the people of the United States, the Secretary may aid States and political subdivisions of States in planning public park, parkway, and recreational areas and in cooperating with one another to accomplish these ends. Aid shall be made available through the Service acting in cooperation with such State agencies or agencies of political subdivisions of States as the Secretary considers best.
The consent of Congress is given to any 2 or more States to negotiate and enter into compacts or agreements with one another with reference to planning, establishing, developing, improving, and maintaining any park, parkway, or recreational area. No compact or agreement shall be effective until approved by the legislatures of the States that are parties to the compact or agreement and by Congress.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3099.)
- 2014Enacted · Pub. L. 113-287 · 128 Stat. 3099
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