Title 54National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-73

§100503 Five-year strategic plans

Title 54 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - National Park System › Chapter CHAPTER 1005— - AREAS OF NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM › § 100503

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each National Park System unit must publish a 5‑year strategic plan and an annual performance plan that follow the Service‑wide strategic plan under section 306 of title 5. After it gets its appropriation from the Operations of the National Park System account, and by January 1 each year, the unit’s superintendent must publish the current fiscal year budget. The budget must show money for three areas—resource preservation (resource management), visitor services (maintenance, interpretation, law enforcement, search and rescue), and administration—and must show how fee income (special use permits, concession franchise fees, and recreation and entrance fees) is divided among those areas.

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Title 54, §100503

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(a)Each System unit shall prepare and make available to the public a 5-year strategic plan and an annual performance plan. The plans shall reflect the Service policies, goals, and outcomes represented in the Service-wide strategic plan prepared pursuant to section 306 of title 5.
(b)(1)As a part of the annual performance plan for a System unit prepared pursuant to subsection (a), following receipt of the appropriation for the unit from the Operations of the National Park System account (but not later than January 1 of each year), the superintendent of the System unit shall develop and make available to the public the budget for the current fiscal year for that System unit.
(2)The budget shall include—
(A)funding allocations for resource preservation (including resource management), visitor services (including maintenance, interpretation, law enforcement, and search and rescue), and administration; and
(B)allocations into each of the categories in subparagraph (A) of all funds retained from fees collected for that year, including special use permits, concession franchise fees, and recreation use and entrance fees.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10050316 U.S.C. 5914.Pub. L. 105–391, title I, § 104, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3499.

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54 U.S.C. § 100503

Title 54National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73