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§410ww–22 Dayton historic resources preservation and development plan

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LIX–U— - DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › Part Part B— - Dayton Aviation Heritage Commission › § 410ww–22

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must create and send a preservation and development plan to the Secretary within 2 years after its first meeting. The plan may include the Wright-Dunbar Historic District, the Dunbar Historic District, the Ed Sines House, the Daniel Fitch House, and the 45 sites listed in Appendix A of the National Park Service study "Study of Alternatives Dayton’s Aviation Heritage, Ohio." The Secretary has 90 days to approve the plan or return it with comments. If the Secretary does nothing in 90 days, the plan is treated as approved. If the plan is disapproved, the Commission must send a revised plan. The Secretary will send any approved plan to Congress. The plan must set goals and a priority timetable and cover items such as which properties to preserve or acquire; a tentative budget for the next five fiscal years; a plan for managing and coordinating resources and aviation-related sites; ways to form partnerships with governments and the private sector; transportation links (including pedestrian and bicycle paths and an interurban between Wright-Dunbar and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base); car use, traffic, parking, and public transit; education and cultural programs; standards for building, restoring, or changing properties; and an index of documentary evidence tied to the Wright brothers, aviation history, or Paul Laurence Dunbar. While making the plan, the Commission must consult relevant federal, state, and local officials and talk with property owners, businesses, neighborhood groups, and other community organizations.

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Title 16, §410ww–22

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(a)Within 2 years after the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting, the Commission shall submit to the Secretary a preservation and development plan which may include the Wright-Dunbar Historic District, the Dunbar Historic District, the Ed Sines House and the Daniel Fitch House, and the 45 sites identified in Appendix A of the document entitled “Study of Alternatives Dayton’s Aviation Heritage, Ohio” published by the National Park Service. Within 90 days after the receipt of such plan, the Secretary shall approve such plan or return it with comments to the Commission. If the Secretary has taken no action after 90 days upon receipt, the plan shall be considered approved. If the Secretary disapproves a plan, the Commission shall submit a revised plan to the Secretary. The plan shall include specific preservation and interpretation goals and a priority timetable for their achievement. The Secretary shall forward copies of the approved plan to the Congress.
(b)The plan referred to in subsection (a) shall—
(1)set detailed goals for the preservation, protection, enhancement, and utilization of the resources of sites referred to in subsection (a);
(2)identify properties which should be preserved, restored, developed, maintained, or acquired;
(3)include a tentative budget for the subsequent five fiscal years;
(4)propose a management strategy for a permanent organizational structure to enhance and coordinate such resources, and aviation-related properties, and institutions;
(5)recommend methods for establishing partnerships with Federal, State, and local governments and the private sector to foster development and to preserve and enhance such resources;
(6)propose transportation links, including pedestrian facilities and bicycle trails among historic aviation sites including an interurban between the Wright-Dunbar Historic District and the historic resources at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base;
(7)address the use of private vehicles, traffic patterns, parking, and public transportation;
(8)propose educational and cultural programs to encourage appreciation of such resources;
(9)establish standards and criteria applicable to the construction, preservation, restoration, alteration, and use of the properties among such resources;
(10)establish an index which shall contain documentary evidence of historical and cultural significance and which includes property in the Miami Valley associated with the Wright brothers, the history of aviation, or Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(c)In developing the plan, the Commission shall consult with appropriate officials of any local government or Federal or State agency which has jurisdiction over historic aviation resources in the Miami Valley area. The Commission shall also consult with property owners and business, historic, professional, neighborhood, and citizen organizations affected by the actions proposed in the plan.

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16 U.S.C. § 410ww–22

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73