16 USC § 273d - Administration, protection, and development

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title: "16 USC § 273d - Administration, protection, and development"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "273d"
section_name: "Administration, protection, and development"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "XXXI"
subchapter_name: "CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK"
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# § 273d. Administration, protection, and development

**1** **Authority of Secretary** August 25, 191639 Stat. 53516 U.S.C. 1–4[^1]

The National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary, shall administer, protect, and develop the park, subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved  () as amended and supplemented ().

See References in Text note below.

**(b)** **Easements and rights-of-way** The Secretary shall grant easements and rights-of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis upon, over, under, across, or along any component of the park area unless he finds that the route of such easements and rights-of-way would have significant adverse effects on the administration of the park.

**(c)** **Report by Secretary** December 18, 197116 U.S.C. 113216 U.S.C. 1131

Within three years from , the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the President, in accordance with subsections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act [ (c) and (d)], his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any area within the park for preservation as wilderness, and any designation of any such area as a wilderness shall be in accordance with said Wilderness Act [ et seq.].

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–207, § 5, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 740.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved  () as amended and supplemented (), referred to in subsec. (a), is , , known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under , National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by , §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, , , 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding .

The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is , , , which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.