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§3206 Statewide cultural assistance program

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 51— - ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 3206

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may help a Native Corporation or Native Group in Alaska if they apply to preserve, display, and interpret cultural and archaeological resources, regardless of ownership. Help may include advice, staff for planning and running displays, and training to identify, recover, preserve, and manage them.

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Title 16, §3206

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In furtherance of the national policy set forth in section 320101 of title 54, and in furtherance of the need to protect and interpret for the public benefit cultural and archeological resources and objects of national significance relating to prehistoric and historic human use and occupation of lands and waters in Alaska, the Secretary may, upon the application of a Native Corporation or Native Group, provide advice, assistance, and technical expertise to the applicant in the preservation, display, and interpretation of cultural resources, without regard as to whether title to such resources is in the United States. Such assistance may include making available personnel to assist in the planning, design, and operation of buildings, facilities, and interpretive displays for the public and personnel to train individuals in the identification, recovery, preservation, demonstration, and management of cultural resources.

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Editorial Notes

Codification In text, “section 320101 of title 54” substituted for “the first section of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes’, approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666)” on authority of Pub. L. 113–287, § 6(e), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which Act enacted Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 3206

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73