16 USC § 430cc - Administration, protection, and development; improvements

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title: "16 USC § 430cc - Administration, protection, and development; improvements"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "430cc"
section_name: "Administration, protection, and development; improvements"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "LX"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(July 20, 1956, ch. 653, § 3, 70 Stat. 593.)"
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# § 430cc. Administration, protection, and development; improvements

**1** The National Park Service under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 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 August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535),[^1] as amended.

See References in Text note below.

**(b)** In order to provide for the proper development and maintenance of the park, the Secretary of the Interior shall construct and maintain therein such roads, trails, markers, buildings, and other improvements, and such facilities for the care and accommodation of visitors, as he may deem necessary.

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**Source Credit**: (July 20, 1956, ch. 653, § 3, 70 Stat. 593.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” approved  (), 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 Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by , §§ 3,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 .