§410cc–32 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Within one year after its first meeting, the Commission must send a draft park preservation plan to the Secretary. The Secretary has 90 days to suggest changes. Within 18 months after the first meeting, the Commission must send a final plan. The Secretary has 90 days to approve or disapprove it and can only approve if the plan will carry out the law’s purpose. If disapproved, the Secretary must explain why and suggest fixes, and the Commission must send a revised plan in the time the Secretary sets. If approved, the Secretary will publish the approval in the Federal Register and send copies to Congress. Any plan or draft must be available to the public on request. No major changes can be made to an approved plan without the Secretary’s okay; the Secretary will approve or reject changes the same way as the original plan. The plan must cover how to preserve, restore, manage, develop, or maintain ten named historic sites (Welles Block; Jordan Marsh Company Building; Yorick Club; Lowell Gas Light Company; St. Anne’s Church and Rectory; Lowell Institution for Savings; Ahepa Building; Boott Mill; Lowell Manufacturing Company on Market Street; and the Early Residence at 45, 47, and 49 Kirk Street). The plan must also identify properties in an index, list properties the Commission may buy and how they will be used, include the standards and criteria the Commission will use, explain its grant and loan programs and estimated grant amounts, set up a visitor transportation plan (including barges, docks, and local rail), describe education and cultural programs, and give a tentative budget for the next five fiscal years. The Commission must create the index and set the standards within one year of its first meeting. The standards are made with advice from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Secretary, and the Lowell city manager, and the Secretary will publish the standards and any revisions in the Federal Register. The Secretary may not give funds for the main grant or acquisition programs until a plan is approved, except that the Secretary can preapprove money for certain preservation, emergency assistance, or acquisition activities if a proposal is reviewed and approved first.

Title 16, §410cc–32

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(a)(1)Within one year after the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting, the Commission shall submit to the Secretary a draft park preservation plan meeting the requirements of subsection (c) of this section. The Secretary shall review the draft park preservation plan and, within ninety days after the date on which such plan is submitted to the Secretary, suggest appropriate changes in such plan to the Commission.

(2)Within eighteen months after the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting, the Commission shall submit to the Secretary a park preservation plan which meets the requirements of subsection (c) of this section. The Secretary shall, within ninety days after the date on which such plan is submitted to the Secretary, approve or disapprove such plan. The Secretary may not approve such plan unless the Secretary determines that such plan would adequately carry out the purpose of this subchapter.

(3)If the Secretary disapproves a park preservation plan, the Secretary shall advise the Commission of the reasons for such disapproval together with the recommendations of the Secretary for revision of such plan. Within such period as the Secretary may designate, the Commission shall submit a revised park preservation plan to the Secretary. The Secretary shall approve or disapprove any revised park preservation plan in the same manner as required in paragraph (2) of this subsection for the approval or disapproval of the original park preservation plan.

(4)If the Secretary approves a park preservation plan, the Secretary shall publish notice of such approval in the Federal Register and shall forward copies of the approved plan to the Congress.

(5)Any park preservation plan or draft plan submitted to the Secretary under this subsection shall, upon request, be available to the public.

(6)No changes other than minor revisions may be made in the approved park preservation plan without the approval of the Secretary. The Secretary shall approve or disapprove any proposed change in the approved park preservation plan, except minor revisions in the same manner as required in paragraph (2) of this subsection for the approval or disapproval of the original park preservation plan.

(b)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Secretary shall not make any funds available to the Commission to carry out section 410cc–33 or 410cc–34 of this title until a park preservation plan has been approved under subsection (a) of this section.

(2)Before a park preservation plan is approved under subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may make available to the Commission such funds as the Commission may request to carry out any activity specified in paragraph (3) of this section. However, no funds shall be made available under this paragraph unless a proposal describing such activity is reviewed and approved by the Secretary.

(3)The Commission may request funds from the Secretary to—

(A)carry out activities to preserve, restore, manage, develop, or maintain any property identified in subsection (c)(1) of this section;

(B)take any action the Commission considers necessary to provide owners of property with national historical or cultural significance within the park or preservation district with emergency assistance for the purpose of preserving and protecting their property in a manner consistent with the purpose of this subchapter; or

(C)acquire in accordance with section 410cc–34 of this title, any property within the park which—

(i)is identified in the report of the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission as a property which should be preserved, restored, managed, developed, or maintained in a manner consistent with the purpose of this subchapter;

(ii)is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as maintained by the Secretary pursuant to chapter 3021 and section 320102(c) of title 54; or

(iii)is determined by the Secretary to be of national significance;

(c)Any plan submitted to the Secretary under subsection (a) of this section shall—

(1)describe the manner in which the Commission, to the extent practicable in accordance with the recommendations in the report of the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission, proposes to provide for the preservation, restoration, management, development, or maintenance of—

(A)the Welles Block, 169 Merrimack Street;

(B)the Jordan Marsh Company Building, 153 Merrimack Street and 15 Kirk Street;

(C)the Yorick Club, 91 Dutton Street;

(D)the Lowell Gas Light Company, 22 Shattuck Street;

(E)St. Anne’s Church and Rectory, 237 Merrimack Street;

(F)Lowell Institution for Savings, 18 Shattuck Street;

(G)the Ahepa Building, 31 Kirk Street;

(H)Boott Mill, Foot of John Street;

(I)Lowell Manufacturing Company on Market Street; and

(J)the structure commonly referred to as the Early Residence, 45, 47, and 49 Kirk Street;

(2)identify the properties included in the index established pursuant to subsection (d) of this section;

(3)identify the properties which the Commission intends to acquire under section 410cc–34 of this title and specify how such properties shall be used;

(4)include the standards and criteria established pursuant to subsection (e) of this section;

(5)provide a detailed description of the manner in which the Commission intends to implement the grant and loan programs under section 410cc–33 of this title, including information relating to the estimated amount of such grants and the manner in which such grants shall be awarded by the Commission;

(6)provide for a transportation program by which the Commission shall provide, directly or by agreement with any person or any public or private entity, transportation services and facilities for park and preservation district visitors, including barge equipment, docking facilities, and local rail facilities;

(7)provide for educational and cultural programs to encourage appreciation of the resources of the park and preservation district; and

(8)include a tentative budget for the subsequent five fiscal years.

(d)The Commission shall establish, within one year after the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting, an index which includes—

(1)any property in the park or preservation district (except for any property identified in section 410cc–21(a)(2) of this title) which should be preserved, restored, managed, developed, maintained, or acquired by the Commission because of its national historic or cultural significance; and

(2)any property which should be preserved, restored, managed, developed, or maintained in a manner compatible with the purpose of this subchapter because of its proximity to (A) any property referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection, or (B) any property designated in section 410cc–21(a)(2) of this title.

(e)(1)The Commission shall establish standards and criteria applicable to the construction, preservation, restoration, alteration, and use of all properties within the preservation district with the advice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the Secretary, and the consent of the city manager of Lowell.

(2)The Commission shall establish the standards and criteria described in paragraph (1) of this subsection for any property within the park with the advice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the city manager of Lowell and subject to the review and approval of the Secretary.

(3)The Commission shall establish standards and criteria under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection within one year after the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting. Such standards and criteria may be revised in the same manner in which they were originally established.

(4)The Secretary shall publish the standards and criteria established under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, and any revisions thereof, in the Federal Register.

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Codification In subsec. (b)(3)(C)(ii), “chapter 3021 and section 320102(c) of title 54” substituted for “section 101(a) of the Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a program for the preservation of additional historic properties throughout the Nation, and for other purposes’, approved

October 15, 1966 (16 U.S.C. 470a), and section 2(b) 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 (16 U.S.C. 462)” 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.

§410cc–32 Park preservation plan and index

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Title 16, §410cc–32

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