Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§47–5 Regulations

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS › § 47–5

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

After October 27, 1986, any lease for housing or other facilities at the El Portal administrative site must follow rules the Secretary of the Interior creates. The rules must say who (people and companies) can get a lease or sublease, how fees are set, and when the Secretary can choose to buy back any unexpired lease or sublease. The rules only take effect after they are sent to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and 60 calendar days have passed.

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Title 16, §47–5

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After October 27, 1986, no lease may be issued for the purpose of providing housing or other facilities in the El Portal administrative site except in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior. Such regulations shall establish the qualifications of natural persons and corporations who may be eligible to acquire a lease and a sublease, the process to be used in establishing fees for such leases and subleases, and they shall set forth the circumstances under which the Secretary may elect to acquire any unexpired lease or sublease. Such regulations shall become effective only after sixty calendar days from the day on which they have been submitted to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.

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Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” after “Committee on”.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 47–5

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73